NASA’s space food makes a picnic. Aboard Gemini 3, “The Molly Brown,” Virgil “Gus” Grissom, and John Young rocketed and enjoyed a picnic of corned beef sandwiches purchased at a local deli in Cocoa Beach.
PHOTO DATE: 06-27-11
LOCATION: Bldg. 17 – Space Food Lab
SUBJECT: Food scientists and Mike Massimino shoot a video on the STS-135 special meal.
WORK ORDER: 1765
PHOTOGRAPHER: Devin Boldt
As Grissom began to eat it, the sandwich bread fell apart and began floating through the cabin. NASA controllers were amused but suggested that next time the astronauts might try the fried chicken.
See http://gemini3.spacelog.org/; http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission_trans/gemini3.htm. For another version of space picnic food picnic, see Paul Theroux’s O-Zone.