Astronaut Food?

[The Boston Crab]

Milky Way

Galaxy

Star Bar

Mars

Snickers

[Yussef Dent]

On Gemini 3, astronaut John Young* smuggled a corned beef sandwich (corned beef is what we call salt beef in the UK, it's not the canned bully beef stuff) on board that his mate had got from a local Florida deli. Trouble was, when he got it out and they had a few bites of it, the sandwich began to break up. This could have caused major issues if it had got into the craft's electrics, and when they got back to Earth they got a bollocking for it, especially as NASA were putting a lot of research and money into astronaut's food. At that time, scran in space consisted of compressed foodstuffs in cubes coated in gelatin, which were supposed to have a different range of flavours but those who had to eat them couldn't tell the difference as your taste buds don't work particularly great in space.

In 1981, Young was the mission commander of the first Space Shuttle flight, and got to choose what those on board ate. Corned beef was on the menu.

*He didn't do anything to any experimental monkeys btw.

[idunnosomename]

Milky Way

Galaxy

Star Bar

Mars

Snickers

flying saucers

Space raiders

Ricicles (for some reason)

Alien pie

[imitationleather]

Smash

[Inspector Norse]

pickled onion Space Invaders obviously

[Captain Z]

Snickers

Or, as it used to be called, Starburst.

[gilbertharding]

Every once in a while, the whole process goes awry, or the toilet malfunctions, and the astronauts have to catch a floating turd.

...and put it in your pocket, save it for a rainy day.