Anyone who’s eaten sushi knows what wasabi is - and you either love it or hate it (I love sushi and hate wasabi). Sunita Williams, an astronaut on the ISS, took some in her personal food pack. She was trying to make a pretend sushi meal when the wasabi tube exploded, sending wasabi EVERYWHERE (remember there’s no gravity in space - it doesn’t just fall to the floor). ”We finally got the wasabi smell out after it was flying around everywhere,” she told her mother. The offending condiment has been banished to a cargo vehicle. ”I don’t think we’re going to use it anymore,” she said. ”It’s too dangerous.”

Thanks to Tom Allen and the Music And Company crew for this item.