On the one hand, CDR is Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, so he hardly speaks for all of NASA.
On the other hand, CDR is Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, whose SPACESHIP EXPLODED and he still got all his crew home safely, so if he wants to call it a sandwich and put ketchup on it I’m not gonna argue with him.
On deeper consideration, however, I think we need to know what an Astronaut Hot Dog looks like, because if he’s putting a hot dog between two pieces of toasted bread rather than in a bun, the appellation of “sandwich” (which, remember, is not actually a noun, but is in fact an adjective) is appropriate.
But when I google “astronaut food hot dog” and variations thereof all I get is a bunch of bullshit clip art and some truly terrible recipes and also admittedly, one of Chris Hadfield, global hero, being charming as usual.
There is a question we have to answer before the discourse can proceed!
Ooh, I can answer that @copperbadge – astronaut food is one of my favorite trial-and-error parts of the space program. Here’s a NASA paper on it!
Based on this, on Apollo 13, Lovell would’ve had at his disposal “wet-pack frankfurters” and “irradiated rye, white, or cheese bread units” (Table 3), but no traditional buns.
I think we can safely conclude the good Commander was, indeed, eating a hot dog sandwich.
One, I KNEW someone would know the answer to this and I am DELIGHTED to know that we have a Space Food Side of Tumblr.
Two, I feel incredibly vindicated that he was, in fact, eating a hot dog sandwich.
For this and for your service to the causes of science and space nerdery, Jim Lovell, we salute you and your hot dog sandwich with catsup, wherever you are.
He’s still around and was making public appearances as recently as 2017, so listen, y’all, if you get a chance to ask Jim Lovell a question, please ask him if he remembers which bread he used for his hot dog sandwich while in motherfuckin’ space.
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Okay don’t use profanity, though, the man is a national hero, let’s show some respect.
Oh my god, nobody pull Jim Lovell into the internet’s dumb debate about what constitutes a sandwich. We cannot be asking one of 24 men ever to fly to the moon what kind of bread he ate his hot dog on. 😀
Let’s face it, he’d much rather be asked about a sandwich than cornered by yet another conspiracy theorist telling him the moon landing was fake.
European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, the first
Italian woman in space, took a moment to celebrate Captain Janeway at
around 250 miles above Earth. (CNET) (twitter)
i bet someone else has already posted this by now but i thought it was really cool bc now we officially have had a cosplay selfie in space lmao
also apparently this marks the first time a star trek uniform’s actually been worn in space i heard??? which is also awesome
She did it again today! Also, in the picture she’s drinking coffee brewed with an espresso machine specifically engineered to work on the International Space Station – the ISSpresso (made in Italy!).
The most amusing thing about this is that, at current launch prices, it costs in the neighbourhood of $4000 per pound to send stuff to the International Space Station. Eyeballing that uniform’s weight at about two pounds, this means that before Ms. Cristoforetti could take cosplay selfies on the ISS, she first had to propose to her nation’s space agency, with a straight face, that they should approve an extra eight grand to send that uniform up there with her in the first place – and that they agreed that this was, in fact, an appropriate use of their funding.
This astronomical watch accurately tracks the position of the six planets visible from Earth. You can look down at your wrist at any time and know exactly where you are in the universe. (Also tells the time just in case you wanted that too) See more here
Melbourne seen from the International Space Station at night reveals its young history. Unlike the winding streets in older European cities, Melbourne’s streetlights follow a more planned grid system. Established in 1835 around the natural bay of Port Phillip Melbourne is the capital of the state of Victoria in Australia.
knitting in the dark 