What yuri gagarin eat in space?

Vostok 1 lifted off on 12 April 1961 and was back on the ground 108 minutes later, after a single orbit. Gagarin was strapped into an ejection seat inside a sphere barely wide enough to turn around in, wearing a pressure suit and helmet, with the spacecraft flying itself under automatic control. There was no galley, no table and no reason to stop for a meal.

Food went up anyway, because nobody knew whether a human could swallow without gravity. A serious worry of the period was that a mouthful might not travel down the oesophagus, or that crumbs would drift into instruments and lungs. The Soviet answer was the collapsible aluminium tube, squeezed like toothpaste: pureed meat, vegetable soup, chocolate sauce. Accounts of the flight describe Gagarin trying the tubes precisely to test that question — an experiment rather than a meal.

The proper test came later the same year with Vostok 2, which kept Gherman Titov in orbit for a full day. He ate and drank from the same kind of tubes, and promptly ran into the other problem, becoming the first person known to suffer the motion sickness now called space adaptation syndrome. Swallowing turned out to be easy; the inner ear was the difficulty. Tubes survived into the Soyuz era before giving way to tinned and rehydratable rations, and today's station crews eat from pouches with an ordinary spoon, the food staying put through surface tension rather than weight.