What happened when astronauts sneaked sandwiches forbidden in sneaks to universe without permission?

BySteven Groves

Meals taken by space astronauts in space are made with emphasis on preservation, light weight, high nutritional value, scattering prevention, easy handiness of cooking, etc. However, from the viewpoint of safety issues on the ground Bringing in food that is eaten is prohibited. However, once the astronauts brought sandwiches into the spacecraft without permission, how the sandwiches had an impact on space development,Great Big StoryIt is described with animation.

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Astronauts must deal with various dangers in outer space.


It is drifting on the satellite orbitSpace debrisYa


Fly over spaceCosmic rays.


Even sandwiches deliciously eaten on the ground can be dangerous in the universe.


In the 1960s, America and the Soviet UnionSpace development competitionIt was spreading.


Space food at the time was mainly in packages that are easy to handle under weightlessness, and those that put food processed into puree in a tube were mainstream.


The space food was processed like this in order to prevent food fragments from splashing into the spacecraft under zero gravity and precision instruments failing.


However, there were astronauts who were dissatisfied with the tasty meal like paste and like baby food. He is a NASA astronautJohn YoungMr……


As a pilotGemini 3When bringing in, sneak a corned bee secretly.


There was a possibility that a sandwich could cause a serious accident involving the life of an astronaut, but Mr. Young said he did not fully understand the notes.


He served as the captain of Gemini 3Gas · GrissomMr. Young and Mr. Young have left the interactions that I mentioned in Gemini 3's space capsule.


When Mr. Grisom asked Mr. Young "What is that?", Mr. Young replied "It's a corned beef sandwich."


Mr. Grisom inquired, "Where did you bring it from?" Mr. Young said, "I brought it, let's see what kind of taste it is, it smells a bit."


Mr. Grissom ate a sandwich, but the sandwich collapsed under weightlessness and broken apart, "I am not saying that it is the best sandwich," he says.


NASA and the United States Council severely reprimand Mr. Young about Mr. Young bringing a sandwich into the space ship.


However, Mr. Young's career as an astronaut did not get hurt, Mr. Young subsequently participated in the plan of Apollo 16 and walked on the moon, the plan of the first space shuttle plan of the human raceSTS-1I was appointed as a captain to the mission. Meanwhile, as Mr. Young brought sandwiches to outer space, the assertion that "meals are greatly related to the morale of the astronauts" was acknowledged, leading to significant improvement of the space food.