Anupriya Bishnoi
Launched at 8:29 p.m. IST on Saturday, Nov. 2 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Hilton’s cookie dough will probably be baked inside a prototype oven within the coming days by astronauts in a historic scientific experiment. The spacecraft formally arrived on the ISS at 4:10 a.m. ET on Nov. 4 and was bolted into place on the station’s Earth-facing port. Introduced earlier this yr, the launch is a results of a partnership between DoubleTree by Hilton, Zero G Kitchen, which creates home equipment for microgravity use in long-duration house flights, and Nanoracks, a number one supplier of economic entry to house. The target of the initiative is to make long-duration house journey extra hospitable.
“Whereas Hilton has had many firsts all through its 100-year historical past, this experiment will mark Hilton as the primary hospitality firm to take part in analysis aboard the house station,” stated Shawn McAteer, senior vice chairman and international head, DoubleTree by Hilton. “We’re thrilled our DoubleTree chocolate chip cookie is sending Hilton hospitality into orbit and contributing to a pivotal second in aerospace historical past as we check the end result of the primary meals baked in house.”
Mary Murphy, senior inside payloads supervisor, Nanoracks, continues, “We’re excited to check the prototype oven in house with the DoubleTree chocolate chip cookies, as all elements of the oven and trays had been designed by Nanoracks for operation within the microgravity atmosphere of the ISS. What’s so attention-grabbing about that is that it is going to be the primary time something will probably be baked in house. What’s going to the cookies appear to be? Will they bake out equally in all instructions and type a sphere, or keep flat? Whereas we don’t know for positive how the experiment will end up, we’re wanting ahead to discovering out and studying easy methods to finest bake meals merchandise in house.”
After the baking experiment, the cookies will bear further testing again on Earth to evaluate the end result. However don’t fear, astronauts aboard the ISS will probably be given a chance to take pleasure in particular pre-baked DoubleTree chocolate chip cookies since these baked within the prototype oven will return to Earth to be studied. Keep tuned for extra info on the outcomes from DoubleTree by Hilton within the coming weeks.
