Astronaut has a wasabi spill in space, or Flying Green Goo

Kate

CAPE CANAVERAL — Astronauts are always on guard against toxic spills that could contaminate the international space station.
But there is nothing in their training manuals about how to clean up flying wasabi.

The spicy greenish condiment was squirted out of a tube while astronaut Sunita Williams was trying to make a pretend sushi meal with bag-packaged salmon. The three space station crewmembers are given a certain number of bonus packs of their favorite foods to help endure their months in space where most meals are the equivalent of military MREs.

Since everything is weightless, spilled food is no ordinary clean-up challenge.

"We finally got the wasabi smell out after it was flying around everywhere," Williams told her mother this week in a conversation arranged by Boston radio station WBZ. "We cleaned it up off the walls a little bit."
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