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In the early days, the space race was about who could send a monkey into orbit, followed by sending a man into orbit.  Then the race switched to who could put a man on the moon with a monkey as the commander of the mission.  I might be getting details wrong here, but you get the idea.  Next, it was about who could land on the sun with monkeys (at night of course when it is cooler).  And from all of this we somehow got Planet of the Apes!   The first person from planet Earth to eat in space was, not surprisingly, the first person in space.   His name was Yuri Gagarin.   He was a Russian cosmonaut who orbited the Earth in 1961.   His first meal?   A tube of beef and liver paste – true story.   The first three letters of his last name are only coincidental, but apropos in this case.   His orbital flight only took 108 minutes.   Why in the world would you eat a tube of beef and liver paste on such a short flight?   Just w...