{"id":605,"date":"2010-05-13T15:28:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T15:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/05\/dogs-in-space-yes-with-soy-sauce.html"},"modified":"2010-05-13T15:28:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T15:28:49","slug":"dogs-in-space-yes-with-soy-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/05\/dogs-in-space-yes-with-soy-sauce.html","title":{"rendered":"Dogs in space? Yes &#8212; with soy sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/space\/7718570\/Dog-on-the-menu-for-Chinese-astronauts.html\">How far we&#8217;ve come since Laika:<\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Laika.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/199\/import\/Laika.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yang Liwei, the 44-year-old military pilot who commanded the Shenzhou Five mission in 2003, revealed the menu on-board the spacecraft in his autobiography, The Nine Levels between Heaven and Earth.<br \/>\n&#8220;Many of my friends are curious about what we eat [in space] and think that the astronauts must have some expensive delicacies, like shark&#8217;s fin or abalone,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Actually we ate quite normal food, there is no need to keep it a secret,&#8221; he added.<br \/>\nHe listed a menu including braised chicken, steamed fish and dog meat from Huajiang county in Guangdong, which is famed for its nutritional benefits in China.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Man, you put <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sriracha_sauce\">sriracha sauce<\/a> on it, and I&#8217;ll eat just about anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How far we&#8217;ve come since Laika: Yang Liwei, the 44-year-old military pilot who commanded the Shenzhou Five mission in 2003, revealed the menu on-board the spacecraft in his autobiography, The Nine Levels between Heaven and Earth. &#8220;Many of my friends are curious about what we eat [in space] and think that the astronauts must have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-science"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dogs in space? 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