Skylab Food Heating and Serving Tray
Shown here is the Skylab food heating and serving tray with food, drink, and utensils. The tray contained heating elements for preparing the individual food packets. The food on Skylab was a great improvement over that on earlier spaceflights. It was no longer necessary to squeeze liquified food from plastic tubes. Skylab's kitchen in the Orbital Workshop wardroom was so equipped that each crewman could select his own menu and prepare it to his own taste. The Marshall Space Flight Center had program management responsibility for the development of Skylab hardware and experiments.
Outside the tray, starting from bottom left, are grape drink, beef pot roast, chicken and rice, beef sandwiches and sugar cookie cubes. In the tray, from back left, are orange drink, strawberries, asparagus, prime rib, a dinner roll and butterscotch pudding in the center.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S72-15409
Date: December 30, 1971
Skylab Food Heating and Serving Tray
Shown here is the Skylab food heating and serving tray with food, drink, and utensils. The tray contained heating elements for preparing the individual food packets. The food on Skylab was a great improvement over that on earlier spaceflights. It was no longer necessary to squeeze liquified food from plastic tubes. Skylab's kitchen in the Orbital Workshop wardroom was so equipped that each crewman could select his own menu and prepare it to his own taste. The Marshall Space Flight Center had program management responsibility for the development of Skylab hardware and experiments.
Outside the tray, starting from bottom left, are grape drink, beef pot roast, chicken and rice, beef sandwiches and sugar cookie cubes. In the tray, from back left, are orange drink, strawberries, asparagus, prime rib, a dinner roll and butterscotch pudding in the center.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S72-15409
Date: December 30, 1971