But perhaps one food item not on the list will be the one that the Artemis II crew will talk about forever: Uncrustables.
Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen have all been promised a lifetime supply of the peanut-butter-and-jelly treat upon their splashdown, expected later today.
When the four astronauts climbed aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft (which they dubbed Integrity), they embarked on a 10-day journey that will finally see their splashdown tonight, April 10, at around 8:07 in the evening. They knew the food that was aboard the ship—and they made one request for when they landed: the pocket-size PB&J treat. The Navy confirmed that the recovery vessel, when they make splashdown, will have an “abundant amount” of the sandwiches.
And Smucker’s replied with an even better PR stunt than maybe what Nutella had in the first place.
The Artemis II crew just traveled 252,756 miles from Earth, breaking the distance record set by Apollo 13 in 1970, and after all that record-breaking, what they really wanted was a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich with the crusts cut off.
