50 Years Ago, NASA Astronauts Smuggled a Corned Beef Sandwich Into Space

On March 23 , 1965 , astronaut John Young reach into his air hole and offer his crewmate Gus Grissom a corned beef sandwich . It was in the heart of the Gemini 3 mission , and let ’s be clear , they were in space . It was asilly small prankbut one that , man , really puddle off Congress .

Gemini 3 was NASA ’s first two - human being space missionary work , and among its many objective was to test freshly contrive space solid food . For model , write Robert Z. Pearlman in Space.com , the test foods were coated in gelatin to foreclose crumbling .

The contraband corned beef sandwich , of track , had no such special coating . Fellow spaceman Wally Schirra had buy the sandwich from Wolfie ’s Restaurant and Sandwich Shop two day ago and passed it off to Young before the launching . Fooddoesn’t tasting so good in space , and it ’s unvoiced to believe a two - day old cured beef sandwich would be delicious . In any case , Grissom had to put it out after a sting , when bum get down floating everywhere . Oops , microgravity .

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Back on Earth , the House of Representatives ’ appropriations committee get wind of the stunt . “ A couple of congressmen became confused , thinking that , by smuggling in the sandwich and eating part of it , Gus and I had ignore the existent blank space food that we were up there to pass judgment , be the country millions of dollars , ” Young wrote in his memoir . NASA finally had to assure Congress that no , it was n’t go to earmark any more contraband corn beef sandwiches into space .

Young would make several more trip into infinite with Gemini 10 , Apollo 10 , Apollo 16 , and the space shuttle . cured squawk made it back into infinite , too , on the first blank shuttle escape in 1981 commanded by none other than Young himself .

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