Have you ever been floating around your tin can, far above the moon, wishing you could enjoy some cheesy corn chips, but doing so could compromise your entire space mission? We hear ya!

And so did the development team at PepsiCo, who have released Zero Gravity corn chips, designed to be enjoyed in space. The bite-sized mini chips are purpose-made for space missions and eliminate the dangers that crumbly chips have previously posed to space travel.

Ordinarily, corn chips would have no business orbiting the planet due to the risk of powdery flavouring or crumbs floating their way into vital machinery in zero gravity but the new generation of Doritos have fixed all that.

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The Cool Ranch Zero Gravity Doritos have swapped out the flavoured dust for an oil-based coating, and are a handy and safe bite-sized triangle so you can chomp with gay abandon.

The space snacks will debut on SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn Mission later this month, when private astronauts will perform the first commercial spacewalk thanks to Man of the People, Elon Musk. The astronauts on board will include Scott “Kidd” Poteet, two SpaceX engineers, Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis, and billionaire Jared Isaacman because wealthy mavericks are having a great run in small metal tubes of late.

If you weren’t lucky enough to score a spot on the SpaceX Dragon rocket, you still have a chance to try the out-of-this-world Doritos. Hopeful flavour seekers only need to donate $200 to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital for the chance to win a glow-in-the-dark tin of the space-aged chips.

Are Doritos gluten-free?

Despite being made of corn, most Doritos corn chips are not gluten-free. This is because a lot of the flavourings that are added to the chips contain ingredients with gluten.

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