Mars awaits!

[JSmith]

I could go a packet of space food sticks right now.

Just remember mate… it's a long way to the shop if you want a sausage roll.



JSmith

 

[bloodshoteyed]

oh, the times when high nutritional value equaled a f**kton of sugar....
guess that's why i'm wearing my "rucksack" on the front side now

 

[restorer-john]

Just remember mate… it's a long way to the shop if you want a sausage roll.



JSmith

All AC/DC references are banned.

 

[001]

I don't think I'll be up for martian chips (fries) until the boffins have worked out the perchchlorates issues in the soil. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mars-farming-harder-martian-regolith-soil
But they're working on it. https://phys.org/news/2021-06-catalyst-perchlorate-martian-soil.html

 

[Sal1950]

Oh Crap,
I thought this thread was going to be about my favorite film,
Mars Attacks,

 

[bloodshoteyed]

back in (bl)ACK?

 

[deprogrammed]

I just wish they'd bring back Spacefood Sticks!

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This predates me, I think. Love to try. But I have had Tang. And I had one of those pressurized space pens. Then I lost it.

 

[Sal1950]

This predates me

Possibly more of a Euro product?
I don't remember Space Sticks in the US either?

 

[fitero]

Along with Tang in 1971 they sold weird, dense, square breakfast bars that I loved. They were also sold as Astronaut food. I'd spend good money to eat those again.

 

[mhardy6647]

Oh Crap,
I thought this thread was going to be about my favorite film,
Mars Attacks,

and... never forget...

 

[JSmith]

A lunch box-sized instrument from NASA successfully makes oxygen on Mars using the planet's resources

Meet the gold-pated NASA box that replaces a small tree: Mars Oxygen In Situ Resource Utilization Experiment — or MOXIE.

www.abc.net.au

An experiment from NASA has taken a small step towards making Mars habitable for humans.

NASA's instrument, the Mars Oxygen In Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, or MOXIE, has been successful in generating breathable oxygen on Mars using resources found on the Red Planet — a first for the experiment.

JSmith

 

[sam_adams]

I just wish they'd bring back Spacefood Sticks!

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Astronaut Ice Cream:

Absolutely horrible stuff . . .

 

[sam_adams]

Scientifically authentic.

 

[sam_adams]

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and... never forget...

Yvonne Craig as Marta from Whom Gods Destroy, Star Trek TOS, S3 E14:

 

[JeffS7444]

I don't think I've ever tasted Tang, so maybe I'll pick up a jar of the stuff.

Space Food Sticks: Had the peanut butter ones as a kid and liked them, but whether I'd feel the same way today..?

Astronaut ice cream is great but $.

Wondering what the breakfast squares mentioned by @fitero in post 29 could have been. as I am under the impression that the 1971 market for such things including "energy bars" was nowhere near what it is today. Only legacy brand that springs to my mind is Tiger's Milk.

 

[blueone]

Oh Crap,
I thought this thread was going to be about my favorite film,
Mars Attacks,

That's the only movie that I've ever seen my wife watch a rerun of. I think it's her favorite too. And though she's a brilliant and formidable person, after watching it she has been known to make Martian noises for hours.

 

[bloodshoteyed]

And though she's a brilliant and formidable person, after watching it she has been known to make Martian noises for hours.

 

[mhardy6647]

 

[Sal1950]

I don't think I've ever tasted Tang, so maybe I'll pick up a jar of the stuff.

I never see it on the shelf's anymore but back in the day I thought is was pretty good.

Mars Attacks was great but I also very much enjoyed the classic,
Flesh Gordon

 

[blueone]

I never see it on the shelf's anymore but back in the day I thought is was pretty good.

Mars Attacks was great but I also very much enjoyed the classic,
Flesh Gordon

Your taste is impeccable.