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Fourteen individually packaged sticks were included in a box, and came in six flavors such as peanut butter, caramel, and chocolate. [2] In 1972, astronauts on board Skylab 3 ate modified versions of Space Food Sticks to test their "gastrointestinal compatibility". [3] Space Food Sticks disappeared from North American supermarket shelves in the ...
Radical Eats. Snack foods, insta-meals, cereals, and drinks tend to come and go, but the ones we remember from childhood seem to stick with us. Children of the 1970s and 1980s had a veritable ...
The Apollo 11 mission to the surface of the Moon returned a few dozen pounds/kilos of lunar material (mainly rock and dust), and the US put about 0.05 grams in small display cases and gave one apiece to the 50 U.S. states, to the nations of the world, and to political entities like the U.S. territories under administration. [1]
The California Apollo 17 lunar sample display burned in a 1978 fire at the San Diego Aero-Space Museum. [4] The damaged plaque is stored at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. [3] According to Moon rocks researcher Robert Pearlman, the California Apollo 11 display is also housed in the San Diego Air & Space Museum. [1]
Space food is a type of food product created and processed for consumption by astronauts during missions to outer space. [1] Such food has specific requirements to provide a balanced diet and adequate nutrition for individuals working in space while being easy and safe to store, prepare and consume in the machinery-filled weightless ...
Butch Wilmore, 61, and Sunita Williams, 59, having a meal on the International Space Station on Sept. 9, 2024. NASA
On January 31, 1971, Edgar Mitchell brought materials on Apollo 14 to conduct unauthorized experiments into extrasensory perception. [6] On August 2, 1971, Apollo 15 commander David Scott placed a small metal statue on the Moon, named Fallen Astronaut to commemorate the astronauts and cosmonauts who had died in the advancement of space exploration.
On Wednesday, Aug. 7, the agency held a news conference giving an update on the two astronauts who have been in outer space for 63 days — approximately seven weeks longer than expected ...