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Earthlings, let us join in celebrations of this momentous occasion! On March 23, 1965, NASA pilot John Young made history when he smuggled a sandwich into space.

The sandwich was corned beef on rye, and it was already two days old when Young whipped it out of his flight suit and took a bite of it two hours into the Gemini 3 mission.

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So that’s pretty gross.

CollectSpace.com reports:

“Where did that come from?” Gus Grissom, the mission’s commander, asked his crewmate.

“I brought it with me,” Young replied, somewhat matter of factly. “Let’s see how it tastes. Smells, doesn’t it?”

So the first and hopefully last smuggled space sandwich wasn’t even good. The astronauts reported it crumbly and too difficult to eat, then tucked it back into a pocket for safe keeping. C’est la vie.

The Gemini 3 mission was one of our first manned trips into space, and it only lasted about five hours — long enough for a launch, three orbits of Earth, and a landing. So there wasn’t too much time to spare.