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During the Gemini 3 mission (unofficially called Molly Brown after the popular Broadway play and film, and alluding to commander Gus Grissom's near-death experience when his Mercury capsule sank) pilot John Young snuck a corned beef sandwich from a local Cocoa Beach deli aboard the spacecraft as a prank on Grissom, who was fond of them. (Back then, space food was prepared under strictly controlled conditions and was, to say the least, not very appetizing.)
Once Molly Brown was in orbit, Young reaches into his spacesuit pocket and offers the sandwich to Grissom, with the remark, "Care to have a bite, skipper?" Grissom did take a bite of the sandwich but didn't finish it off, due to concerns that floating crumbs might clog up a vital electrical contact of the spacecraft's instrumentation.
When they returned to Earth, both Young and Grissom were reprimanded by NASA management, and the half of Grissom's sandwich (with the single bite by Grissom) was reportedly preserved for eternity in Lucite by Young.
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