Wednesday 25 March 2015

50 years ago today, space welcomed its first sandwich

SPACE TRAVEL
50 years ago today, space welcomed its first sandwich
Washington (UPI) Mar 24, 2015 - Fifty years ago, on March 23, 1965, space welcomed a sandwich - a corned beef sandwich, snuck aboard the Gemini 3 probe. The sandwich was smuggled into space by NASA pilot John Young. Commander pilot Gus Grissom accompanied Young on the mission - the first manned Gemini mission and second manned U.S. space mission ever. As Space.com reports, when Young pulled the sandwich from ... more


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