In the middle of the space race, when every launch was packed with scientific objectives and watched by a nervous world, astronaut John Young had an unusual extra item tucked inside his spacesuit, a corned-beef sandwich. The sandwich became one of the strangest episodes in NASA history. It was never part of the official menu for Gemini 3, yet Young managed to carry it aboard the spacecraft and, roughly two hours into the mission, pulled it out and offered some to his commander, Gus Grissom.
