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The International Space Station gets its first space refrigerator – Yahoo Finance Australia

The units were designed by BioServe Space Technologies at UCB and are only about the size of a standard microwave. ISS has a water-cooling system we’ll be tappe…

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Being an astronaut is great so long as you dont mind sucking your dinner out of a pouch and munching on freeze dried ice cream given that fresh foodstuffs have traditionally lacked the necessary multi-year shelf stability. Thankfully, the days of rehydrated snacks will soon be over thanks to an ingenious refrigeration system from the University of Colorado, Boulder, dubbed Freezer Refrigerator Incubator Device for Galley and Experimentation (aka the FRIDGE).
The units were designed by BioServe …

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