TIL that Astronaut John Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich aboard the Gemini III mission in 1965. He offered it to his crewmate mid-flight, but they had to stash it quickly as floating crumbs threatened to interfere with the spacecraft's instruments.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/ames/contraband-corned-beef-and-the-early-days-of-space-biology-the-gemini-…
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