The First Meal Ever Eaten In Space Was Anything But Stellar - Chowhound

Angyalosi Beata/Shutterstock Space has never been known for its fine dining, but the first food ever eaten high above planet Earth was especially sad. The meal occurred on April 12, 1961, during the Vostok 1 mission, the first crewed flight to space, when Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, reached for two aluminum tubes. The first was a tube of beef and liver paste, which Gagarin ate as a main course. The second…