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What Really is Astronaut Food?
Can you eat in space? What do you eat in space? These might seem like ridiculous questions now—after all, who hasn’t sampled astronaut ice cream—but they were very real concerns at the advent of the space program. 
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Typical Gemini Meal

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Wed, Jul 07 2021
How Many Quarts of Tomato Soup?! Modern Takes on Historical Recipes from the Benjamin O. Davis Collection
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Cover Page, brown paper with two punched holes centered along the upper part of the page. Text in first two rows: "Headquarters District 'H' CCC / Fort Benning GA." Centered text in outline font "Special Recipes." Smaller text in lower right corner, "September 1, 1936"
Sat, Apr 03 2021
I’ll have the Veal! Preservation with a Can-Do Attitude
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Eating canned food in space
Mon, Apr 09 2018
The Woman Who Got Real Food to Space
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Astronauts Ron Evans, Eugene Cernan, and Harrison “Jack” Schmitt of Apollo 17 inspect food stowage with Rapp’s guidance
Fri, Nov 24 2017
What's on the Menu? Recipes from the ISS
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Astronauts with floating fruit and bags of food
Tue, Oct 31 2017
Astronauts’ Candy-Coated Space Snacks
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A photo of astronaut Loren J. Shriver eating floating chocolate candies.
Sun, Jul 31 2016
Food & Flight: Jerrie Mock’s Moroccan Recipe
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Jerrie Mock
Thu, Nov 19 2015
From the Archives: A Company Thanksgiving
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Unloading Turkeys from Truck
Sun, Jul 19 2015
We All Scream - Even in Space - for Ice Cream
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Ice Cream in Space
Thu, Nov 27 2014
Thanksgiving Day in Space
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Thanksgiving in Space
Sun, Mar 31 2013
Easter Peeps Welcome Discovery!
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Peeps Welcome Discovery
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