Description:
Series I is divided into two subseries: aerospace food service (.4 ft.)which includes journal articles, newspaper clippings, photographs, reports, slides, speeches, and unpublished articles documenting the aerospace food program in the late 1960s, and Air Force aeromedical food programs (.6 ft.) which includes brochures, menus, manuals, photographs, questionnaires, newspaper clippings, posters, speeches, and slides related to aeromedical evacuation and cooked therapeutic in-flight meals (CTIMS).
BOX 1 Aerospace Food Service
Information fact sheet, 1967
Journal articles
“Acceptability of food items developed for space flight feeding,” Food Technology, October,
1967
“Aerospace feeding: acceptability of bite-size and dehydrated foods,” Journal of the American
Dietetic Association, September, 1967
“Brooks team had ‘true grits’ in cooking up science menu for moon voyages,” Science and
Technology Writer, undated
“Clinical nutrition applications of space food technology,” Journal of the American Dietetic
Association, April, 1973
“Consumption of re-hydrateable food in zero-gravity environments using conventional eating
utensils,” Aerospace Medicine, March, 1970
“Development and evaluation of a simplified formula food for aerospace feeding systems,”
Aerospace Medicine, January, 1968
“Development of space foods,” Journal of the American Dietetic Association, May, 1964
“Evolution of space feeding concepts during the Mercury & Gemini space programs,” Food
Technology, December, 1967
“Food, nutrition, and the space traveler,” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, November-
December, 1960
“How conventional eating methods were found feasible for spacecraft,” Food Technology, Vol.
25, No. 1, 1971
“Nutritional evaluation of a pre-cooked dehydrated diet for possible use in aerospace systems,”
Food Technology, October, 1966
“Nutrition in space,” NASA Education Brief, #1002, undated
“Study of man during a 56-day exposure to an oxygen-helium atmosphere at 258 mm. Hg total
pressure,” Aerospace Medicine, June, 1966
“The central nervous system: its central role in discrimination & selection of food,” Food
Technology, November, 1966
Newspaper clippings, 1966-1999
Photographs [May O’Hara Awe/food service], undated
Reports
“Development of food items to meet Air Force requirements for space travel,” June, 1964 [2
copies]
“Food for space travel: an examination of current capabilities and future needs,” January, 1963
[2 copies]
“Frozen component meals packaged for medical food service,” December, 1970
“Plastic packaging for space feeding of heat processed and frozen foods,” May, 1962
“Preliminary project report on feasibility study of the application of microwave energy in
aerospace feeding systems,” March, 1969
BOX 16 Slides
Space meals, ca. 1960s
May O’Hara Awe, ca. 1960s
BOX 1 Speeches
“Abstract: evaluation of foods used in aerospace feeding systems,” John E. Vanderveen, undated
“Aerospace feeding: research, development, and operational aspects,” May O. Klebanoff,
October, 1969
“Aspects of space feeding,” undated
“Current research for space travel: nutrition and food technology,” April, 1963
"[The] dietitian in aerospace research,” January, 1967
“Lunch among the stars,” May O’Hara Awe, November, 1968
“Nutritional aspects of the development of food for 30-day space missions,” John E. Vanderveen,”
1965
“Nutrition for long space voyages,” John E. Vanderveen, undated
“Nutrition research for man in space flight,” Beatrice Finkelstein, November, 1958
“Progress in space feeding research,” Beatrice Finkelstein, October, 1961
“Research in space nutrition,” May O’Hara, June, 1966
“Space nutrition,” E.W. Speckmann, 1965
Speech presented to panel on space nutrition, Life Sciences Committee, Space Science Board,
1967
“Surface coatings for space foods,” Edward Anderson, September, 1966
[Untitled speech], 1967
Unpublished articles
“Changes in food patterns and nutritional content of the Alaska Eskimo and Indian resulting from
cross-cultural influences,” May Klebanoff, May, 1978
“Evaluation of foods for space flights,” John E. Vanderveen, undated
“Evaluation of space feeding systems,” John E. Vanderveen, et. al., undated
“Food for astronauts,” John E. Vanderveen, undated
“Values in relation to my environment,” May Klebanoff, undated
Air Force Aeromedical Food Programs
Air crew nutrition, 1985-2002
Brochures/menus
“Aeromedical evacuation: information for patients,” 1969
“Food service support of aeromedical evacuation,” 1967
“Plains Inn flight menu,” undated
C-9 aero evacuation [‘the nightingale’], 1968
Cooked therapeutic in-flight meals (CTIM)
Information letter, 1989-1990
MACMET study of in-flight meal procedures, 1969
Manuals
CTIM for aeromedical evacuation, 1969
MM 164-1, 1971
AFR 166-6, 1986
MAC form 206, 1986
Overview of CTIM system, 1968-1983
Progress report, 1970
Proposed revisions to AFP 164-4 and AFR 164-5, 1990
Quality control study, 1990
Cook stations
C-9 galley, undated
C-141 galley, undated
Flight meal questionnaires, 1985
Meal credit/reimbursement procedures, 1970
Newspaper clippings/articles, 1955-1986
Photographs
“Feeding the aeromedical patient,” 1952
BOX 19 Posters
“Your health and your job,” 1955
“Your health and your job: Pre-flight meals alert,” 1955
“Your health and your job: In-flight meals refuel,” 1955
“Your health and your job: Post-flight meals recharge,” 1955
“Your health and your job: Plan your diet pattern,” 1955
BOX 1 Reports/manuals
“A concise history of the USAF aeromedical evacuation system,”1976
“Aeromedical evacuation dietetic support [AF regulation 146-15],” 1993
"Aeromedical evacuation dietetic support [AF instruction 41-303],” 1995
“Aeromedical evacuation guide,” 1987
“Aircrew nutrition [AFP 166-16],” 1987
“B-52 crew evaluation of thermostabilized foods,” 1974
“Bite-size food in fighter aircraft,” 1967
“Flight feeding and field kitchen operation, Extension Course Institute,” undated
“Flight food service management [AF regulation 146-15],” 1988
“Know what you’re eating—a key to health [AFP 160-133],” 1980
“Nutritional medicine flight guide,” undated
Speeches
“Food service support of aeromedical evacuation,” 1968
“The nightingale delivers therapeutic nutrition at 30,000 feet,” 1968
BOX 16 Slides
Aeromedical evacuation, 1967-1968 and undated
Cooked therapeutic in-flight meals (CTIM), 1964-1968 and undated
Airplanes/missiles/space, 1964-1973
BOX 1 U-2 pilot nutrition, 1999