Food in tubes for Soviet cosmonauts
• Food in tubes for Soviet cosmonauts
Previously, almost all the food for astronauts, was placed in a tube. Now moisturizers, and more precisely in the tube is placed just condiments (ketchup, sauces and the like. P.) To the food astronauts, and a large part of the food supply astronauts in freeze-dried form (as solid parallelepiped formations vacuum packed).
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Tubes with space meal created with the design, though they could just leave unpainted.
Some moisturizers with food for astronauts produced in Estonia (ESSR), the design of these tubes was:
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In general, the design of the Soviet tubes with space meal was the (top to the tube was attached paper label describing the contents of the tube) - with a white top and red bottom, between which the semi-circular boundary on which stands a small painted flag of the USSR:
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Sometimes the bottom, with painted flag of the USSR, was blue:
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Also, these minimalist versions red bottom (where this option is on the second tube on the left) have been distributed:
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And here on the gift tubes with vodka in the hands of the American astronauts - they gave the Soviet cosmonauts during the joint Apollo-Soyuz project in 1975 as an exception (cosmonauts and astronauts are prohibited to drink alcohol in space) to show Russian hospitality:
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There was also a design of tubes:
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During the transition from food in tubes on sublimated, and the transition from the tubes on the tube design has been changed - a new design was a blue-white-striped painted with broad blue stripes on a red-white spaceship - a tube in the transition period:
This modern tuba: