One of my favorite websites, NASA Watch, tells me that NASA has patented and sold the rights to manufacture and sell an electrolyte drink developed in-house for use by astronauts. What's an electrolyte drink, you ask? It's like a Gatorade, Powerade, Pedialyte, etc. intended to not only provide fluids for rehydration but also provide an optimum balance of dissolved ions like sodium and potassium lost typically through prolonged exertion, sweating, and things like that. Hence the intended use for astronauts, athletes, and anybody else who sweats like a whore in church.
Will I drink the shit out of the Right Stuff (that's the name, by the way)? You bet your ass. If only Ham, my personal hero, had some of this stuff back in '61, I bet... well, I don't know what I bet. But he should've had some. Will the novelty of a NASA-powered gatorade wear off faster than freeze-dried ice cream? I don't know that either, but I'm going to find out.
Read the press release here.
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