Raising a Glass (to 185 Kilometers)

[beamjockey]

What better way to celebrate the semicentennial of the flight of Freedom 7 than with a toast?

I thank my colleague Roger Zimmermann for pointing out that the toast should be drunk with Tang, beverage of astronauts!


Tang, the powdered orange drink.


Mary Lynn Skirvin Johnson, Bill Higgins, and Todd Johnson toast Mercury Redstone 3.

Happy anniversary, Admiral Shepard, wherever you are.

Comments

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I encountered this joke in the Sixties, probably in the pages of Reader's Digest.

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

I don't remember ever reading it anywhere. I just remember thinking -- sometime during the Apollo program -- that Tang and vodka would be how an astronaut would make a screwdriver. Of course, this was after I learned what a regular screwdriver was.

At first, I called it an "astronaut screwdriver," but then I decided that "zero-G screwdriver" sounded better. I've never made one, so I have no idea how this would taste.