I love moments like this in any project really. Working on high stress projects with the most professional people, eventually someone is going to break and do something childish. Mostly putting cats into production code or some secret code to show as inside joke to your relatives to prove your existence and work

Personally I haven't seen anything to the levels of sneaking a sandwich into space, but I can't wait experience it, or execute it :)

Trying to imagine how something like this even happens... there's probably half a dozen people around him helping him get suited up and half-way through he says... "Hold up, guys. Let me get something from the fridge."

even the execution of pulling the sandwich out of your suit in the small capsule and starting to eat away at it with such a coy smile. The chicken leg jab too was too perfect, this is such a wholesome event

This sandwich is memorialized in a resin display at the Gus Grissom Memorial Museum in Mitchell, Indiana.

http://cdn.wonderfulengineering.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/...

A little more info about the incident, including who bought the sandwich and from where, whether permission was given, and how NASA and congress felt about the matter:

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-032315a-gemini3-corned...

no mustard or pickle!? what a crummy sandwich

John W. Young on his rookie mission. Severe official disapproval, but of course he went on to a total of six launches, two of them moonbound, two of them truly pioneering, and only relatively recently retired from NASA.

Autobiography Forever Young recommended.

It does show a sort of trailblazing attitude to take a corned beef sandwich into space, not knowing what it will do.

I dunno I'm pretty sure everyone involved was pretty confident it would be delicious.

He retired from everything relatively recently.

If you mean the final retirement, then no, he's alive and probably kicking. You may be thinking of Gene Cernan.

Young's Apollo 16 crew is the only moon-landing team still intact. Apollo 8 is also still fully manned. They were the first, and took the iconic pictures, but they didn't land.

> Young died on January 5, 2018, at his home in Houston of complications from pneumonia. He was 87.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Young_(astronaut)

So strange. I doublechecked on Wikipedia before posting my comment, just to be sure. Nothing, "John Young is". Now, an hour later, it's there, "John Young was".

Apologise for the misinformation. Offline weekend, the news passed me by.

John Young died 3 days ago.

Yes, sorry, I see that now.

HN Thread about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16087154

Direct link: http://gemini3.spacelog.org/00:01:52:26/#log-line-6746

I thought someone had cornered the market for beef sandwiches in space.