NASA APOLLO PROGRAM ASTRONAUT FOOD PROCESSING & MENU DEVELOPMENT FILM SPACE FOOD 98564

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Browse our products on Amazon: Made by Jam Handy, presented by Whirlpool and featuring Peter Hackes, a science reporter, this Apollo era film “How Many Meals to the Moon?“ shows how food was developed for NASA astronauts. The film was directed by Lou Kramer. The film begins with footage of Boy Scouts working with Estes type model rockets (1:30). The film then delves into the problems of food preparation, packaging, storage, serving and disposal and the role played by the Life Support Department of Whirlpool in this area. At 3:00 a woman works in a modern kitchen with beautiful space age refrigerators and ranges built by Whirlpool. At 3:48 the Gemini Program is shown with astronauts performing EVAs. At 4:30 the head of Life Support, Dr. Norman Roth, is introduced and there’s a discussion of the space food challenge. At 5:44 the environment of space is describe