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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDo Astronuts still drink Tang?
Do they still have steak and eggs for breakfast?
Besides space walking, that's why I wanted to be an Astronut.
And, yes my name is Jethro.
Thank you
agingdem
(7,874 posts)Last edited Thu Jul 16, 2020, 10:06 PM - Edit history (1)
it was like drinking flavored air...
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Space Sticks (remember those?) not so much.
https://www.google.com/search?q=space+sticks&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#imgrc=n9N1ZvW46UP3TM
But then...freeze dried iced cream has redemptive power. I wonder if they eat that?
jpak
(41,760 posts)And Tang
Just in case I'm launched into space
Fabersham
AleksS
(1,665 posts)Tang was our familys camping drink so the smell of it brings back all kinds of great memories.
Thanks for the feelings!!!
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)What about space food sticks?
I don't think astronauts are eating any of that crap anymore though. Missions are typically 6 months and there would be mutinies with food like that. The food has come a very long way.
AleksS
(1,665 posts)Tang is for sure still for sale. I have never heard of space food sticks--I'll have to look that up.
I bet you're right though and astronauts have better food than those early days. But I bet a lot of it is still dehydrated/freeze-dried to save weight on the trip up. I feel like I remember that it costs thousands of dollars for every kilogram of mass sent into space.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)The rest of the time it's freeze-dried stuff and flour tortillas instead of bread.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Snip
"Tang sucks," Aldrin said, according to TMZ.
Contrary to popular belief, Tang wasn't actually invented by NASA. The tangy orange drink was introduced to the space agency when NASA officials were searching for a way to transport drinks into space.
"The actual truth is [that] General Foods was making its travel drink mix and NASA thought, 'Oh, this is how we should be flying our beverages,'" Michele Perchonok, NASA's manager of the Space Food Systems Laboratory, told SPACE.com partner Robert Pearlman, editor of collectSPACE.com, in 2006. "So we purchased the already-made and commercially available product."...
A few other food-centered myths about NASA have been perpetuated in pop culture. While in space, astronauts don't actually eat the freeze-dried "astronaut ice cream" sold as a souvenir in gift shops. However, that doesn't mean the frozen treat is off the table entirely.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)And I don't understand how powdered orange drink helps the logistics of sending drinks into space. Don't they still have to bring water to mix it with? Why ruin perfectly good water with that crap?
My wife will fight a emmereffer for some Dippin' Dots though.
Kaleva
(36,395 posts)Shermann
(7,485 posts)I just started cutting back on soda in favor of Kool-Aid as it's easier to store in the pantry.
I'll have none of the Orange Kool-Aid. Tropical Punch for the survival win!
rurallib
(62,478 posts)Stuff lasts forever.
targetpractice
(4,919 posts)I loved the peanut butter and chocolate malt ones...
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)But fun to play astronaut with.
targetpractice
(4,919 posts)...But, I loved them anyways.
Wounded Bear
(58,773 posts)Now, TBF I don't do hardly any citrus. Have become too sensitive to the acidity.
But still, nah, no reason to drink that.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,727 posts)jpak
(41,760 posts)Growing up never had steak evah
One time had Tang for breakfast
Steak for breakfast seemed the most extravagant thing evah - and with eggs?
Put me on the end of metal tube filled with kerosene and liquid oxygen!
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)It made their hydration more palatable.
They said that now the water tastes better and they have many flavor and vitamin mixes to add to the water.
AleksS
(1,665 posts)from.