article_snippet: Space food was typically prepared in liquid or cube form to prevent crumbs spilling out and potentially getting stuck in a key piece of equipment.
article_snippet: The major fear of having crumbs in a spacecraft was that they could get stuck in various controls, something that featured in the 15th episode of the fifth season of The Simpsons, Deep Space Homer, when Homer opened and spilled a bag of crisps in space (shown)
article_snippet: Here's some We made earlier: Shown is the official food taken into space on the Gemini 3 mission, including dehydrated beef pot roast, bacon and egg bites, toasted bread cubes, orange juice and a wet wipe.
highlights_snippet: Mission control feared the crumbs could damage spacecraft systems .
  