I'm suprised you crazies haven't touched upon space food..
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:18 am
by Hardtack
One of the items in this pic looks familiar huh?
It came from here: http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-112306a.html
Google space food images and all kinds of goodies come up. Space food flown or not must be really hard for collectors to come by. I remember playing astronaut as a kid and my Mom making space food wrapped in foil. I'll be making my kids space food out of mre's and a Foodsaver vacuum machine some day.
MRS -- Meals Ready for Space
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:33 am
by jfko6
Numerous clips of Meals in space can be viewed in the film 2001 A Space Odyssey. An image of Keir Dullea who plays Dr. David Bowman can be seen eating one in the movie and is available on Wikipedia. Go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Sp ... %28film%29
I think its freeze dried. I wonder what the shelf life is?
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:07 pm
by Big Galloot
What crazies?
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:22 pm
by kman
Crazies? Who are you calling crazy??
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:11 am
by DangerousDave
That object in the lower west southwest corner looks like an old dehydrated potato patty. If only I had one of those, and the packet of dried ketchup.
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:02 pm
by C-rats
Does anyone else remember the "Space Food Sticks" that you could buy at your local market during the APOLLO years? They were sort of like a chewy candy and were actually pretty tasty. They came individually wrapped in a yellow paper & foil wrapper, and were packaged 10 or 12 (I can't remember) per box. I forget who actually made them, but they were real popular with us kids back then (if you had one in your lunch box, you were cooooool, man!). I can't remember any other flavor but chocolate being available. Anyone??
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:42 pm
by kman
Even more shocking that there's a Spoonman pic as shown above or even a Spoonman video as seen in another thread.......is the fact there is, indeed, a "Space Food Sticks Preservation Society":