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Topic: Coke and Pepsi aboard the space shuttle

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 08-11-2020 12:15 AM collectSPACE <blockquote><font size="+0"><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-081120a-space-cola-wars-35-years.html">'Space cola wars' at 35: When Coca-Cola, Pepsi tested soda in space</a></font> [i]John-David Bartoe was having none of it. A payload specialist aboard a 1985 flight of the space shuttle Challenger, Bartoe sequestered himself away from his six crewmates. He was glad to be on his first mission and even happier to have made it safely into space after what was the space shuttle program's first and only abort-to-orbit, but becoming one of the first astronauts to drink Coca-Cola or Pepsi off Earth was a sip too far. "I thought it was frivolous and detracting from the science of the mission. I didn't like it all," said Bartoe, reflecting 35 years later on what the media dubbed then the "space cola wars." "I said, 'I'm not going to do it, I think it it's a terrible idea.'"[/i]</blockquote> <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-081120a-space-cola-wars-35-years.html" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-081120aa-lg.jpg" width="400" height="265" border="0"></a></center>
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