My Job? Create menus for astronauts!

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My Job? Create menus for astronauts!

Find out about the career path of Samantha McCaig, nutrition specialist on the Canadian Space Agency's operational space medicine team. (Credit: Canadian Space Agency)

Samantha McCaig: I'm a nutritional specialist on the operational space medicine team, and I also work with the food production team on a part time basis.

So, my role involves preparing food for upcoming space missions, including to the ISS, and Artemis and I also provide nutrition support for Canadian astronauts while they're in space.

I studied nutrition and food science at the University of Alberta. And as part of my degree, I completed an internship at the Canadian Space Agency in support of the C3 mission for David Saint-Jacques.

After I graduated, I worked in the food industry in both quality control and research and development positions, and now I'm working on the operational space medicine team and the food production team at CSA.

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