"They were chosen because they melt in your mouth, not in your hand, or, in this case, your hot space shuttle."
"We were offered the brand-new, unused, 15,000-foot [4,570 meters] hard-surfaced runway, with alligators at both ends, at Kennedy Space Center. I declined as I did not think we were ready for that yet, but we suggested the lakebed runway at the White Sands Missile Range instead, where we had done most of our approach and landing practice," Lousma said in a recent interview with collectSPACE.com.
Lousma and Fullerton were also the first-ever astronauts to take candy with them into space. Earlier crews had fudge and sweet desserts like pudding, but STS-3 was the first to launch with sugar confections aboard. Specifically, they were the first astronauts to fly M&M's, the colorful"candy-coated chocolates" made by Mars, Inc. since 1941.
Why did the M&Ms go to space (originally should be school instead of space)? To become Smarties!😂
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Well yea the first M&M's flying first on STS-41B (the 10th shuttle mission) and 4th flight of the orbiter challenger, so yea in 1984.