Space Food Spotlighted
At Blast-Off Breakfast
Food editors and reporters
from the nation’s most impor
tant consumer magazines, wire
services, home economics publi
cations, and syndicated news
paper columns heard Dr. Mal
colm C. Smith, NASA’s Chief of
Food and Nutrition, discuss the
care and feeding of astronauts
in the Apollo Space Program.
The event was the Blast-Off
Breakfast sponsored by the
Poultry and Egg National Board
and three other food associa
tions, held 50 floors atop the
Time-Life Building in New York
City.
Following a brief welcome
and the introduction of repre
sentatives from the event’s co
sponsoring organizations, the
National Live Stock and Meat
Board, the American Bakers As
sociation, and the Florida Citrus
Commission, the food editors
and other guests were treated to
an authentic astronaut’s pre
flight breakfast of a 12-ounce
sirloin steak, two scrambled
eggs, orange juice (reconstitut
ed at the table), toast, and cof
fee.
During the breakfast meal,
Howard Hehner, PENB’s east
ern representative, called atten
tion to the fact that while the
hearty breakfast is designed to
fortify the astronauts for the
difficult space missions, today’s
average urban worker and com
muter may face more harrowing
times in merely getting to work.
He daily faces a plight of sub
ways, commuter trains, and big
city pressures, yet blasts off
with little or no nutritional fuel
at all.
Dr. Smith discussed the im
portance of food in space flight,
not only to the astronaut’s phy
sical condition, but its psycholo
gical effect. He explained that
this is one reason they are stri
ing to prepare foods that look
and taste like the foods the as
tionauts eat here on earth.
Each astronaut selects the
food he wants on the space mis
sion for each meal and these
are packaged and color coded.
Recoids are kept for each mis
sion that show what was sent
up, what was consumed, and
what was returned unopened
Dr. Smith related that prac
tically all of the astronauts have
lost weight during space flights,
even though plenty of nuti itious
food was available to them.
“However, we are making
much progress and have consid
erably improved the food since
the start of the space program, 1 '
stated Dr. White. “We have
found that the astronauts need
and want more than just a pill
that contains the necessary nu
trients.”
Press Kits distributed to the
guests following the program
contained a PENB release en
titled, “Astronauts Blast-Off
With a Balanced Breakfast.” In
cluded also were sample packets
of the new freeze dried egg pro
duct used on the APOLLO XII
Mission, and produced for NA
SA by Freeze Dry Products,
Inc, of Evansville, Indiana In
addition to the eggs, the co
sponsoring organizations in
cluded samples of their space
products, and NASA made
available food samples packaged
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DIRECTORS, OFFICERS N- 1 -
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WISH YOU
YOURS THI
HAPPIEST
HOLIDAYS
CHRISTMAS 1969
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A Trustee tor The Lancaster County Fountfatien
Follow Instructions
If labels on meat and poultry
products carry storage directions
be sure to follow them, says
Harold Neigh, Penn State exten
sion consumer economics spec
ialist. Buy products marked
"Keep Refrigerated” only if they
are refugerated in the store Al
so make sure frozen products
are solidly frozen when you buy
them.
Who says today’s homemakers
have it easier 7 Instead of bak
ing for days befoie Chustmas,
mom now spends houis defiost
ing goodies
in the actual food pouches
used on the Apoolo missions.
One immediate reaction to
the Blast-Off Breakfast was
made by Alice Denhoff, food
editor for the nationally circu
lated King Features Syndicate,
who arranged to meet with
PENB in order to prepare an
article on the importance of
bringing back the breakfast as
fuel for our bodies and minds in
today’s space age pace of living
My Neighbors
“I wonder if ne can’t get
federal matching funds for
this protect ”
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 27,1969—17
Ladies,
Have You Heard?...
By Doris Thomas, Extension Home Economist
Have A Safe And Merry Christinas
Caicfully check old slungs of lights If sockets and connections
are damaged or cords fiayed, Ihiow them awaj If you must use a
stung of lights with fiayed coids, tape each
wue sepai ately with electrician’s tape,
Tiees that have built in electucal systems
should have the UL label to show that they
have been inspected for electucal safely
When you buy new stungs of lights, be
sure they cairy the UL label. These may cost a
little more than those not apioved, but the ad
ditional cost is good safety insurance
Before stringing lights on the tiee, be suie
theie is a bulb in every socket and eveiy bulb
is the right size. Place bulbs on the tree so that
they don’t touch foliage, paper or cotton. Use
only fireproof decorations
Check tree from time to time and if foliage
has turned brown, relocate the lights
Warn children to keep hands to take tiee down and out of the
away from light strings, indoors house.
and out. Replace burned out Electric trams can thiow
bulbs and leave no socket empty sparks, so lay the tracks far
to invite small fingers. from the tree.
Disconnect lights from wall On metallic trees use spot or
outlets when not in use or when flood lights, not strings of lights
family is away. in fluect contact
, . , . „ All cords, plugs, sockets and
Keep the tree in water at all used outdoors should be
times. Dry evei greens burn eas
ily. When needles fall it’s time (Continued on Page 19)
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