After this mission, General Foods began advertising Tang as the official beverage of astronauts, who referred to it as "orange drink ... to ever step foot on the moon, admitted that he disliked ...

He demonstrated the tricky task of sipping from a special mug in microgravity on the International Space Station.

For future moon exploration, including potential long-term lunar bases staffed by astronauts, lunar water would be of vital importance because it could be processed not only as a drinking supply ...

The moon is not bone dry, scientists now know. But how many drops of water will thirsty astronauts find? No one knows for sure. A robotic NASA spacecraft called Lunar Trailblazer, which launched ...

As detailed in historian Andrew Chaikin's book, A Man on the Moon, and astronaut John Young's autobiography ... and his subsequent notoriety through drinking and descended into alcoholism ...

Article continues below To combat this, astronauts will drink a salty concoction a few hours before landing to get more fluid circulating around their bodies. According to NASA, the deorbit burn ...