Space Shuttle Food Looks Horrifying in Its Packaging, Supposedly Tastier Than It Looks

Legend has it that the very first food eaten in space was a tube of beef and liver paste, squeezed through an aluminum toothpaste tube into the awaiting open maw of Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin during the Vostok 1 mission on April 12th, 1961. It's also been said dessert that afternoon consisted of a chocolate pudding-like substance consumed from a similar aluminum tube. Sounds tasty, right? Probably not. But as space travel advanced in... (continue reading...)