What did the first human in space have as a meal?

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin as a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut was the first human to travel into outer space. He made his voyage in the Vostok spacecraft and made a complete orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961. He ate his food from tubes, squeezing it out just like you’d squeeze out toothpaste. His main meal was a tube of beef and liver paste, and his dessert was a chocolate sauce.

What to eat in space and how to eat it wasn’t such a simple thing to figure out. There was a time when we could not be sure humans could eat-in space at all. Can we even swallow in zero gravity? Would the food get stuck halfway down? So, the first foods and beverages consumed in space were of a tentative nature. They were experiments. For instance, one of John Glenn’s missions when he first orbited the Earth on the Friendship 7 in 1962 was to drink water! Things could have gone very badly, but Glenn was able to swallow water with no problem.

Another Soviet Cosmonaut named German StepanovichTitov, in fact, had eaten two meals during his 1961 flight and had vomited it all back up. This was cause for concern, but it turns out that Titov was just suffering from “space sickness."