Eating hand-made shmurah matza in space during Passover may sound like something out of a sci-fi film, but that is what happened this year. On April 9, a week before Passover, Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe, 64, a former Israeli Air Force fighter pilot and philanthropist, was given a box of shmurah matza before boarding Axiom 1 bound for the International Space Station.

During a press conference earlier in the week, Stibbe said, “The seder, Passover, is all about freedom, which is a value we celebrate annually and remind ourselves about the importance of freedom, based on a 3,000-year-old story when Moses said the famous sentence, ‘Let my people go.’”