POTD: Apollo-Soyuz "vodka" rations, 1975
American astronauts Tom Stafford and Deke Slayton holding tubes of vodka given to them by Russian cosmonauts during historic rendezvous and linkup of Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft.
Who cares what space food tastes like when your meal comes with a tube of vodka?
(The tubes of vodka didn't actually contain vodka, as that is probably the last thing you want your crew to drink when piloting spacecraft. As a joke, the Soviet cosmonauts pasted vodka labels onto tubes of borscht and presented them to the Americans for a toast. Yes, tubes of borscht. I think I'd rather have the vodka.)
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