NASA astronaut John Young carried a corned beef sandwich hidden in his spacesuit aboard Gemini III in 1965; rye crumbs floated through the cabin, and it became a $30 million problem for NASA |
John Young and the preserved corned-beef sandwich displayed at the Grissom Memorial Museum in Indiana. NASA astronaut John W. Young secretly carried a freshly made corned-beef sandwich on rye into space during the Gemini III mission on March 23, 1965, hiding it in a pocket of his spacesuit. Nearly two hours into the flight, Young…
