The pleasure of eating rehydrated shrimp cocktail, or trying to stuff a urine bag, against gravity, into the wet-trash container, was open not only to five or six well-trained astronauts and pilots.

Gemini astronauts had such food choices as shrimp cocktail, chicken and vegetables, butterscotch pudding, and apple sauce, and were able to select meal combinations themselves.

Stocks of northern shrimp, the essential ingredient in the ubiquitous prawn cocktail, could be badly affected if ocean temperatures rise.