The quest to conquer space has had many problems and many unknowns that had to be overcome.

Simple basic things on Earth can be quite difficult in the zero gravity conditions of outer space.

In 1965, two American astronauts found this out and learned the hard way why they have to have special foods for use on space flights.

Learn more about Gemini 3 and the world's most controversial corn-beaf sandwich on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Not every part of history gets equal attention. This is certainly the case with early space exploration.

The first space flights get a lot of attention and the moon landings get a lot of attention,

but many of the space flights that occurred in between get much

less attention. And such is the case with Gemini 3. I'm guessing that most of you have

probably never heard of Gemini 3, or if you did you might not have even known it was

Gemini 3 that you heard about.

Gemini 3 was the first manned mission in the Gemini program.

These were the intermediary missions between the Mercury and Apollo programs. The Gemini capsules were basically larger versions of

the Mercury capsules. They were designed for two astronauts instead of one, hence the name

Gemini, and had technical upgrades. Gemini 1 and 2 were unmanned missions just designed to test the flightworthiness of the capsule and the rocket.

The first mission with astronauts was to be Gemini 3.

Gus Grissom and John Young were the two men selected to be on the first Gemini flight.

Gus Grissom was one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts.

He flew on the second Mercury mission and was the second American in space.

He would later be killed in the Apollo one disaster less than two years later.

Gemini 3 would be the first spaceflight for John Young.

Young would go on to become one of the most

accomplished astronauts in history. He would later fly on Gemini 10, orbit the moon on

Apollo 10, land on the moon on Apollo 16, captain the very first space shuttle flight,

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