Space Food, Beef Pot Roast, Apollo 11 (White)

This spacefood package contains dehydrated and compressed beef pot-roast, and was flown on the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969. As it was not consumed during the mission, it was returned to Earth.

Each Apollo crew member was provided with three meals per day totalling approximately 2,800 calories. The food was freeze-dried and was easily reconstituted by the astronaut with a water probe which dispensed one half ounce of hot or cold water as required, each time the trigger button was pressed.

The food was protected with a 4-ply, laminated film coating. This protected the food from loss of flavor, moisture and oxygen invasion, spoiling and excess crumbling, and was used on both the rehydratable and the bite-sized foods. The rehydratable foods also had an 8-quinolinol sulfate tablet attached to reduce spoilage in the used food wraps.

Transferred from NASA - Johnson Space Center in 1986.