Hot sauce manufacturers, take note…astronauts are your new target demographic. Get them hooked on it, then have them take it up into space. When they say that there’s a whole new world that needs hot sauce, they may have actually been talking about the world of outer space. Check this article out from the Gonzales Ascension Citizen out of Gonzales, LA:

Astronauts waiting on second ‘Fireball’ hot sauce shipment
By Wade McIntyre, The Weekly Citizen
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 11:10 AM CST

PRAIRIEVILLE - Few people keep a closer eye on the NASA Space Shuttle Discovery and its valuable cargo these days than local hot sauce maven Hiram Davis.

Since the delay of a Dec. 6 scheduled liftoff, Davis peers at the sky and scans the Internet for updates on NASA’s efforts to repair the Discovery fuel line and fuel sensor, hoping that a launch comes soon.

When the shuttle does take off, its cargo will include a second batch of Davis’ “Bayou Fireball” hot sauce for astronauts on the International Space Station who await a capsaisin fix to jazz up their notoriously bland space food rations.

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We’ve written about Hiram’s hot sauces before, so check out our recent articles:

Hot sauce in space! Must be seen to be believed!
Beam me up some hot sauce, Scotty!

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