Cookies, candy, nuts, and dried fruit are typical Shuttle-era snack items. Unlike perishable meal foods that have to be dehydrated or irradiated to avoid spoiling, store-bought snack foods are simply repackaged into individual portions without further processing. Despite the plain package, astronauts enjoy having snack foods in their natural form. This item was returned from the STS-27 Space Shuttle mission (Atlantis) in 1988.
This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.
United States of America
PERSONAL EQUIPMENT-Food & Food Accessories
3-D: 14 x 11 x 3cm (5 1/2 x 4 5/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
plastic, paper, organic material
A19890251000
Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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