{"id":221063,"date":"2025-08-27T12:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/an-apollo-8-christmas-dinner-surprise-turkey-and-gravy-make-space-history"},"modified":"2025-08-27T12:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:08:20","slug":"an-apollo-8-christmas-dinner-surprise-turkey-and-gravy-make-space-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/an-apollo-8-christmas-dinner-surprise-turkey-and-gravy-make-space-history","title":{"rendered":"An Apollo 8 Christmas Dinner Surprise: Turkey and Gravy Make Space History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-apollo-8-christmas-dinner-surprise-turkey-and-gravy-make-space-history.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Christmas Day in 1968, the three-man Apollo 8 crew of Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders found a surprise in their food locker: a specially packed Christmas dinner wrapped in foil and decorated with red and green ribbons. Something as simple as a \u201chome-cooked meal,\u201d or as close as NASA could get for a spaceflight at the time, greatly improved the crew\u2019s morale and appetite. More importantly, the meal marked a turning point in space food history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Christmas Day in 1968, the three-man Apollo 8 crew of Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders found a surprise in their food locker: a specially packed Christmas dinner wrapped in foil and decorated with red and green ribbons. Something as simple as a \u201chome-cooked meal,\u201d or as close as NASA could get for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}