"The footage shows astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station - the PRC's low earth orbit research platform, first launched in 2021 - roasting half a dozen wings in a small oven onboard the craft. Both drums and flats are loaded onto a tray, which locks the floating bits of meat up in a cage-like apparatus so they don't drift off."
"This isn't the first time CNSA has sparked a flame in the vacuum of space. Back in 2023, some brave taikonauts aboard the Tiangong lit a candle in a video demonstration, showing off fire's strange properties in zero-gravity (not to mention their confidence in the station's fire suppression systems.) While details on the space oven are scarce, Chinese media reports the module came aboard the Shenzhou-21 mission, which recently brought three astronauts to the station and broke the nation's speed record for a successful docking."
Astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station roasted half a dozen chicken wings in a small onboard oven, using a cage-like tray to prevent the meat from drifting in microgravity. The oven resembles a front-loading clothes dryer and produced golden-brown wings that the crew shared. The crew later cooked hydrated beef in the same tray. The clip of the activity went viral on Chinese social media and spread to Western platforms, prompting humorous comparisons to the ISS. The space oven reportedly arrived on the Shenzhou-21 mission, which brought three astronauts and set a docking speed record. CNSA previously demonstrated a candle experiment to show fire behavior in microgravity.
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