The emergency food offerings on Costco's website ... adding that industry sales data suggests the market for dehydrated or freeze-dried foods has tripled in the past four years.

Then there's freeze-dried food, such as the freeze-dried ice cream sold in space ... We're fueling first responders for emergency situations. This is something that is so across the aisle, everybody ...

You might say that sales skyrocketed afterward. Freeze-dried foods were introduced during the Gemini program to supplement the dehydrated and bite-sized offerings. These were coated with either ...