'14-Day Menu for Whirlpool Compact Feeding Console.' Five-page typewritten meal plan summary during longer space missions. Providing plans for four days, the summary is divided into breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus while supplying information on the type of food, method of storage, and how to prepare each item. Date unknown.
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First-person narrative of Captain Jean McKay describing her experience before the launch of Project Mercury in May 1961. Undated speech in an embossed report cover, presented to the San Diego Air and Space Museum [formerly the San Diego Aerospace Museum].
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Document tilted 'Basic Nutrition' providing a brief overview on nutrition, essential food groups, and what happens to food in a human body. Probably a speech written and presented by Captain Jean McKay. Date unknown.
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Typed and handwritten draft titled 'Feeding Men in Space' describing space flight with an emphasis on food storage in the Apollo Lunar Module and meal preparation for astronauts in space. Document also notes the conditions experienced while traveling to the moon, the issues of feeding astronauts in space, and the potential plan for the Apollo program. Date unknown; probably created between 1965 and 1969 by Captain Jean McKay for a speech.
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'Food, Nutrition and the Space Traveler' by Beatrice Finkelstein and Lt. Col. Albert A. Taylor. Separated reprint originally published in the November-December 1960 issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Volume 8, Number 6, pp 793-800. Printed by The American Journal of Medicine.
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Two-page typewritten summary on the flight feeding program for a 3-man 2-week space mission. Information includes the planning of meals to maintain physical and mental health, storage and space in the compact feeding console, and meal preparation during space travel. Date unknown and post-1961.
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'PROJECT MERCURY Pre-space Flight Feeding Program.' Twenty-five-page summary of a Project Mercury astronaut's meal plan 96 hours prior to a space mission. The report includes information on a low-residue diet, menus prior to take-off, meal preparation procedures (recipes), market orders for low-residue menus, and a calculated nutritional analysis. Cover page includes handwritten notes, inscriptions, and signatures.
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A completed 'Project Identify and Recognize' form detailing personal information and military history of Mrs. Jean T. McKay. Two brief personal stories about McKay are attached. One describes her service with the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services recruiting and improving the image of women in the military while the other notes her work as a dietitian with the Project Mercury preparing astronauts for the first manned space flight. Form signed by McKay and dated 22 May 2004.
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1960 NASA authorization. Hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics and Subcommittees Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, first session, on H. R. 6512
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1961 NASA authorization : Hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics and Subcommittees Nos. 1, 3, and 4, U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, second session, on H.R. 10246..
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1962 NASA authorization. Hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, and Subcommittees Nos. 1, 3, and 4, U. S. House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, first session, on H. R. 3238 and H. R. 6029 (superseded by H. R. 6874) ..
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1963 NASA authorization. Hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress second session, on H. R. 10100 (superseded by H. R. 11737) ..
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1964 NASA authorization. Hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, first session, on H.R. 5466 (superseded by H.R. 7500)
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