Applesauce Was Not The First Food Eaten In Space
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- Applesauce was not the first food eaten in space.
- The first food consumed by an astronaut in space was actually pureed beef and vegetables, not applesauce.
- On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first human to orbit the Earth during the Vostok 1 mission.
- As part of his space rations, Gagarin had small tubes of pureed meat and vegetables that he ingested using a special dispenser.
- This was done to ensure that he received the necessary nutrients in a convenient and easily consumable form during his historic spaceflight.
- While applesauce has been included in the food options for astronauts during later space missions, it was not the first food consumed in space.
- The menu for space missions has evolved significantly since then, with astronauts now having a wide variety of specially prepared and packaged foods available to them during their time in space.
