Space Food, Beef and Vegetables, Mercury, Friendship 7
name: label: Astronaut
content: John H. Glenn, Jr.
label: Manufacturer
content: Unknown
notes: label: Summary
content: This spacefood package contains pureed beef with vegetables and was issued to John Glenn for consumption during his Friendship 7 flight in February 1962.
label: Summary
content: Spacefood for the Mercury missions was placed in tube form to enable the astronaut to squeeze it directly into his mouth. In the later Gemini and Apollo missions, food was dehydrated requiring rehydration with hot water and could be eaten directly from the plastic storage bag.
label: Summary
content: Transferred to the national Air and Space Museum from NASA in 1967.
place: label: Country of Origin
content: United States of America
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content: National Air and Space Museum Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transferred from NASA
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Air and Space Museum
identifier: label: Inventory Number
content: A19670206000
objectType: label: Type
content: PERSONAL EQUIPMENT-Food & Food Accessories
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Materials
content: Tube: Lead
label: Materials
content: Contents: Beef stew paste
label: Dimensions
content: 3-D: 16.5 × 6 × 4.3cm (6 1/2 × 2 3/8 × 1 11/16 in.)