Uber Eats Makes Its First Food Delivery To Space

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Yusaku Maezawa and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov pose with an Uber Eats bag and some cans of food on the ISS.

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When you're living on board the International Space Station, you can't just whip out the Eats app and get your favorite pizza delivered into orbit. Or can you? On Tuesday, , but it wasn't anything like a normal delivery.
Instead of sending a driver to swing by a restaurant and take a meal to its destination, Uber Eats used Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa, a space tourist visiting the ISS. On Dec. 11, Maezawa delivered a brown paper Uber Eats bag and a selection of ready-to-eat canned Japanese foods to the ISS crew.




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"With dishes including boiled mackerel in miso, beef bowl cooked in sweet sauce, simmered chicken with bamboo shoots, and braised pork, Uber Eats and Maezawa treated the astronauts to a delicious meal that was a welcome break from standard space food," Uber said in a statement. 

last week, a prelude adventure to an even grander plan. Maezawa is funding a in a Starship spacecraft in 2023.


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Space tourism is on the rise and Maezawa is one of the latest people to explore a rocket-powered vacation option. He's been sharing and social media about what it's like to use the ISS restroom and brush his teeth in microgravity. He also delivered a gorgeous .

While the Uber Eats ISS delivery was a clever marketing move, it was still thoughtful of Maezawa to bring some snacks to the space party.