One-Man Meal
Each astronaut meal was individually wrapped in foil and color-coded. This blue-patched package contains the third-day dinner for Apollo 11 Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.

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Contingency Feeding System
If the Apollo spacecraft cabin should become depressurized, the astronauts would have to live in their spacesuits and would not be able to eat solid foods. This Contingency Feeding System, carried on Apollo 11, would have allowed an astronaut to eat liquid foods through a small port of his helmet.
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Food Restraint Pouch

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