Do Astronuts still drink Tang?

[jpak]

Do they still have steak and eggs for breakfast?

Besides space walking, that's why I wanted to be an Astronut.

And, yes my name is Jethro.

Thank you

[agingdem]

1. I remember Tang..

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it was like drinking flavored air...

[soothsayer]

2. Love Tang! Perfectly good reason to want to be an astronaut

Space Sticks (remember those?) not so much.

https://www.google.com/search?q=space+sticks&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#imgrc=n9N1ZvW46UP3TM

But then...freeze dried iced cream has redemptive power. I wonder if they eat that?

[jpak]

3. I have freezed dried ice cream in my go bag

And Tang

Just in case I'm launched into space

Fabersham

[AleksS]

4. Still love Tang. It brings back so many memories.

Tang was our family’s camping drink so the smell of it brings back all kinds of great memories.

Thanks for the feelings!!!

[lagomorph777]

13. They still sell it?

What about space food sticks?

I don't think astronauts are eating any of that crap anymore though. Missions are typically 6 months and there would be mutinies with food like that. The food has come a very long way.

[AleksS]

15. I bought some Tang just a little while ago at the grocery store!

Tang is for sure still for sale. I have never heard of space food sticks--I'll have to look that up.

I bet you're right though and astronauts have better food than those early days. But I bet a lot of it is still dehydrated/freeze-dried to save weight on the trip up. I feel like I remember that it costs thousands of dollars for every kilogram of mass sent into space.

[lagomorph777]

16. Yes - it's a huge deal when a cargo ship arrives with 3 oranges.

The rest of the time it's freeze-dried stuff and flour tortillas instead of bread.

[soothsayer]

5. To Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, 'Tang Sucks'

https://www.space.com/21538-buzz-aldrin-tang-spaceflight.html

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"Tang sucks," Aldrin said, according to TMZ.

Contrary to popular belief, Tang wasn't actually invented by NASA. The tangy orange drink was introduced to the space agency when NASA officials were searching for a way to transport drinks into space.

"The actual truth is [that] General Foods was making its travel drink mix and NASA thought, 'Oh, this is how we should be flying our beverages,'" Michele Perchonok, NASA's manager of the Space Food Systems Laboratory, told SPACE.com partner Robert Pearlman, editor of collectSPACE.com, in 2006. "So we purchased the already-made and commercially available product."...

A few other food-centered myths about NASA have been perpetuated in pop culture. While in space, astronauts don't actually eat the freeze-dried "astronaut ice cream" sold as a souvenir in gift shops. However, that doesn't mean the frozen treat is off the table entirely.

[OriginalGeek]

17. I agree with Buzz. I never liked Tang

And I don't understand how powdered orange drink helps the logistics of sending drinks into space. Don't they still have to bring water to mix it with? Why ruin perfectly good water with that crap?

My wife will fight a emmereffer for some Dippin' Dots though.

[Kaleva]

20. Tang made the recycled urine more tolerable.

[Shermann]

6. Can't say I've ever had it

I just started cutting back on soda in favor of Kool-Aid as it's easier to store in the pantry.

I'll have none of the Orange Kool-Aid. Tropical Punch for the survival win!

[rurallib]

7. I think they are still working on the stuff packaged back in the '60s.

Stuff lasts forever.

[targetpractice]

8. Anyone remember Space Food Sticks?

I loved the peanut butter and chocolate malt ones...

[lagomorph777]

14. I remember those. They were as terrible as Tang.

But fun to play astronaut with.

[targetpractice]

18. Haha... They were objectively not good...

...But, I loved them anyways.

[Wounded Bear]

9. Drank it as a kid. Now I can't stand it...

Now, TBF I don't do hardly any citrus. Have become too sensitive to the acidity.

But still, nah, no reason to drink that.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. Is some missing? NT

[jpak]

11. Yes

Growing up never had steak evah

One time had Tang for breakfast

Steak for breakfast seemed the most extravagant thing evah - and with eggs?

Put me on the end of metal tube filled with kerosene and liquid oxygen!

[NightWatcher]

12. Astronaut told me they drank Tang because the reconstituted water had a flat (bad) taste

It made their hydration more palatable.

They said that now the water tastes better and they have many flavor and vitamin mixes to add to the water.

[AleksS]

19. I imagine there's a psychological zinger too, when you remember where the water was "reconstituted"

from.