Pizza in space looks gross. There's no brick oven. Melty, gooey cheese is not an option. There's also the possibility that the six men currently aboard the International Space Station are terrible pizza chefs. And that's okay.
Paolo Nespoli, an Italian astronaut on the ISS since late July, was dearly missing pizza, so he oh-so-casually mentioned it to space station manager Kirk Shireman during a live event. Shireman, a decent human, packed pizza-making supplies on a capsule heading to ISS in November for the crew to enjoy. Over the weekend, they did just that, filming a video of their pizza-making endeavours.
And yeah, the meal didn't look too great. The toppings didn't include cheese, the dough loosely resembled sand-coloured cardboard, and the astronauts had to use a suitcase contraption to bake the pizza. But Nespoli did say the pies were "unexpectedly delicious," and they did flip through the air without a care for gravity—"flying saucers of the edible kind," as astronaut Randy Bresnik called them—which is and will always remain extremely cool.
Chalk this one up as a human achievement on par with sending a probe beyond the outer reaches of the solar system and finding signs of life on Mars.
