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The first corned beef sandwich in space (1965)
- SurrealSoul 9y agoI love moments like this in any project really. Working on high stress projects with the most professional people, eventually someone is going to break and do something childish. Mostly putting cats into production code or some secret code to show as inside joke to your relatives to prove your existence and work Personally I haven't seen anything to the levels of sneaking a sandwich into space, but I can't wait experience it, or execute it :)
- colinbartlett 9y agoTrying to imagine how something like this even happens... there's probably half a dozen people around him helping him get suited up and half-way through he says... "Hold up, guys. Let me get something from the fridge."
- SurrealSoul 9y agoeven the execution of pulling the sandwich out of your suit in the small capsule and starting to eat away at it with such a coy smile. The chicken leg jab too was too perfect, this is such a wholesome event
- interfixus 9y agoJohn W. Young on his rookie mission. Severe official disapproval, but of course he went on to a total of six launches, two of them moonbound, two of them truly pioneering, and only relatively recently retired from NASA. Autobiography Forever Young recommended.
- toomanybeersies 9y agoIt does show a sort of trailblazing attitude to take a corned beef sandwich into space, not knowing what it will do.
- Avshalom 9y agoI dunno I'm pretty sure everyone involved was pretty confident it would be delicious.
- jacquesm 9y agoHe retired from everything relatively recently.
- interfixus 9y agoIf you mean the final retirement, then no, he's alive and probably kicking. You may be thinking of Gene Cernan. Young's Apollo 16 crew is the only moon-landing team still intact. Apollo 8 is also still fully manned. They were the first, and took the iconic pictures, but they didn't land.
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y agoJohn Young died 3 days ago.
- interfixus 9y agoYes, sorry, I see that now.
- jacquesm 9y agoHN Thread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16087154 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16087154
- antsar 9y ago> Young died on January 5, 2018, at his home in Houston of complications from pneumonia. He was 87. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Young_(astronaut) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Young_(astronaut)
- interfixus 9y agoSo strange. I doublechecked on Wikipedia before posting my comment, just to be sure. Nothing, "John Young is". Now, an hour later, it's there, "John Young was". Apologise for the misinformation. Offline weekend, the news passed me by.
- slowhands 9y agoThis sandwich is memorialized in a resin display at the Gus Grissom Memorial Museum in Mitchell, Indiana. http://cdn.wonderfulengineering.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/John-Young-Sandwich-Gemini-3-3-610x343.jpg http://cdn.wonderfulengineering.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/...
- js2 9y agoA little more info about the incident, including who bought the sandwich and from where, whether permission was given, and how NASA and congress felt about the matter: http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-032315a-gemini3-corned-beef-sandwich.html http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-032315a-gemini3-corned...
- SurrealSoul 9y agono mustard or pickle!? what a crummy sandwich
- alpb 9y agoDirect link: http://gemini3.spacelog.org/00:01:52:26/#log-line-6746 http://gemini3.spacelog.org/00:01:52:26/#log-line-6746
- Bromskloss 9y agoI thought someone had cornered the market for beef sandwiches in space.