Official Freeze-Dried Astronaut Ice Cream is a delightful dessert anytime - whether on the trail or outer space exploring - truly one of the coolest treats around! Astronaut Neapolitan Ice Cream has been a long-time best seller.

Freeze dried ice cream is very sweet tasting, and slowly melts when it comes in contact with saliva. The taste then passes into the saliva, which makes the saliva very sweet also. It can sometimes become sticky and small hunks of ice cream stick to the gums. It is dry, because all moisture has been removed. It also crumbles if too much pressure is applied.

Apollo 7 in 1968 was the only NASA mission on which space ice cream flew in outer space. According to a NASA food scientist, although freeze-dried ice cream was developed on request, "it wasn't that popular." Skylab had a refrigerator that was used for real ice cream, and occasionally Space Shuttle and International Space Station astronauts have enjoyed real ice cream.