The smoked turkey resembles sliced deli meat but stiffer, the candied yams are bland inside, the green beans taste like they’ve been microwaved to death, and the corn bread stuffing has a broth-heavy, institutional flavor. Grandma’s home cooking, it’s not. Then again, Grandma’s Thanksgiving dinners were never irradiated, freeze-dried, vacuum-packed into plastic pouches and then launched into space to be served 220 miles above Earth. That’s what the Turkey Day meals for the astronauts aboard space shuttle Endeavour have endured.
