Buzz Aldrin also ate snacks on the moon

19 minutes after Armstrong, Aldrin stepped out of the Eagle lunar module, and they spent the next two hours collecting rock samples, taking pictures, and setting up experiments. They consumed the first lunch ever consumed by humans on the moon while they were working, which Rita Rapp, a NASA food scientist, had meticulously prepared. The list of items, though, still reads like a menu from a college dorm: square-shaped bacon, sugar cookie cubes, fruit drink, and coffee.

“It’s not exactly a grand feast for a couple of guys on the verge of making history,” Aldrin tweeted in December 2021, “but when you’re in space you have to make do with what you have.” The first person to go to space and the first person to eat there was Russian astronaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin. His meals were far less exciting than his mission as he had to eat pureed beef, liver and vegetables from a tube as he orbited Earth. He squeezed chocolate sauce from a different tube for dessert.