 Have you ever stopped to think about eating in space? I don't mean the physical act of eating. NASA figured out during John Glenn's 1962 orbital flight aboard Friendship 7 that humans can eat just fine in space. I mean the fact that for most of us, meals are a time to sit down with friends over delicious food that we all enjoy. On the Apollo missions to the moon, meals had a slightly less social component. They were much more scientific. Every meal was designed to have the right calorie content, nutritional value, and also taken to account every astronaut's personal preferences. And one thing that almost every astronaut loved on the Apollo missions was the bacon. NASA sent bacon to the moon, and more than one astronaut radioed back to mission control, expressing his appreciation for bacon squares. For more on the story of bacon consumed in space on the way to and from the moon, check out the article below.