article_snippet: Two hours into the groundbreaking mission, one of the pilots pulled out a contraband corned beef sandwich which sparked a controversial incident that was debated all the way to US Congress.
article_snippet: The Gemini 3 mission of 23 March 1965, America's first two-man spaceflight, was shrouded in controversy when astronaut John Young snuck a corned beef sandwich on board.
article_snippet: a corned beef sandwich is shown here embedded in acrylic and is exhibited at the Grissom Memorial Museum in Mitchell, Indiana .
article_snippet: So when astronaut John Young pulled out a sandwich from astronaut John Young spacesuit, two hours after launching from Cape Canaveral in Florida, mission controllers were understandably perturbed.
article_snippet: The sandwich though, having not been vetted for launch, quickly began to break apart, which would later earn the astronauts a severe reprimand.
article_snippet: My thought is that... to have one of the astronauts inside slip a sandwich aboard the vehicle, frankly, is just a little bit disgusting,’ Representative George Shipley of Illinois later said to Nasa administrators in Houston.
article_snippet: We have taken steps... to prevent recurrence of corned beef sandwiches in future flights,’ replied George Mueller, associate administrator for manned spaceflight.
article_snippet: Water is being inserted into the pouch of dehydrated food in the image .
article_snippet: John Young was also part of the inaugural Space Shuttle mission - STS-1 in 1981 - which amusingly was the first time Nasa allowed corned beef on a flight - before John Young sixth and final mission, STS-9, in 1983.
highlights_snippet: But It was shrouded in controversy when John Young sneaked food on board .
  
highlights_snippet: John Young hid a corned beef sandwich in John Young spacesuit and took a corned beef sandwich out in orbit .
  