Astronaut Will Take Cuban Food To Space

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

This Wednesday, three astronauts took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, bound for the International Space Station. As expected, the passengers carried sophisticated equipment and all the necessary preparations for their mission. But who has stood out among them is the Cuban-American Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor who took something that connected her to her home on earth among her belongings: Cuban food prepared by her family, so that she does not get nostalgic.

The prominent 42-year-old scientist was the one who revealed that she would travel with black beans among her food rations for her trip alongside Sergey Prokopyev from Russia and Alexander Gerst from Germany.

"My family has prepared Cuban dishes for me (…) I have black beans," Auñón said in a television interview with Martí Noticias. The astronaut, who is trilingual and in addition to English, speaks Russian and Spanish, said that traveling to space is "very exciting."

According to The Verge portal, Auñón and his companions replaced other astronauts who had just returned from the international station last Sunday and will circulate in the lower part of Earth's orbit.

The prominent scientist began working at NASA in 2006 as a flight surgeon and three years later she was chosen as an astronaut. She graduated from George Washington University and has a doctorate in medicine from the University of Texas Health Science in Houston.

According to Martí Noticias, his father left Cuba in 1960 and worked as a waiter and food store employee and graduated from George Washington University to become a professor of electrical engineering. Her mother is North American and is dedicated to writing mystery novels that she writes under the pseudonym Maggie Sefton.