What Eating The First Meal On The Moon Was Like
NEWS
By JONATHAN KESH
Among all the small yet fascinating tidbits about NASA’s 1969 Apollo 11 mission and humanity’s first visit to the Moon is the first meal ever eaten on the surface of the moon.
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the ones who had the meal in question. It was a breakfast of bacon squares, peaches, sugar cookie cubes, coffee, and pineapple-grapefruit juice.
The duo had the historic meal sitting inside the cramped Lunar Module Eagle in the Sea of Tranquility. They later ate beef stew and cream-of-chicken soup during their 21-hour stay.
They then reunited with Michael Collins — who had been waiting in orbit — and commenced their journey home. Per NASA’s press kit, Apollo 11’s astronauts had a lot of food options.
The trip included a zero-gravity snack pantry filled with “freeze-dried rehydratable, wet-pack and spoon-bowl foods,” plenty of various “rehydratable desserts,” coffee, and cocoa.