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Tube & Cube Foods
Early space travel may have been glorious, but the astronaut menus definitely weren't. Throughout the Mercury, Gemini, and early Apollo missions, pureed food in a tube was one of the few options. "It was essentially baby food," Kloeris said. If mushy applesauce and carrots didn't satisfy, plenty of liquefied chicken, ham, beef and tuna was available. Aside from tube foods were similarly unappetizing cube foods. "They pressed things like cereal, cookies, and graham crackers into half-inch-by-half-inch cubes and coated them with starch," Kloeris said. "You'd just pop them in your mouth." Learn more foods...
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