Was Tang really drunk in outter space by the astronauts?

Question

or is that just a commercial

Answer 1

Yes indeed . And it was swilled by the tank load by every American kid, including me, with parents gullible enough to buy it in place of real juice.

You'd always try to sneak an extra spoonful into the glass too so you could get that sweet syrupy gunk at the bottom. Can you say dentist? I wonder how many baby boomers still have their real teeth.

But I bet the astronauts never drank it except when they had too ;)

Answer 2

Yes, that's one of the everyday inventions that resulted from the space race in the 1960s. Others include freeze-dried food and cordless tools.

Answer 3

Tang has been used in space.  It wasn't developed for space, but it happens to be a drink you can make by adding water.  Since weight is at a premium in space, food is typically sent up freeze dried.  Add water and eat.  So here's Tang at the grocery store, and it's 'add water and drink'.  It's natural enough to use it.

Answer 4

yes it was DRANK by them

Answer 5

yes, and in Skylab they were stuck in orbit so long they poured the Tang into the zero-gee toilet, dumped in some raisons and made prison hooch.

Answer 6

Yes, NASA used Tang during the Gemini flights beginning in 1965, and it was the advertising associated with that which made it so popular for the mainstream.

Answer 7

Yes, it really was. In fact, it was developed especially for the space program.

Answer 8

It was

Here's a piece of trivia:

Tang is Mandarin Chinese for sugar.