Astronauts smuggled sandwich into orbit - archive, 21 April 1965

21 April 1965: Officials said the stunt went beyond minor clowning and could have disrupted scientific research

Molly Brown, the Gemini spacecraft which carried Grissom and Young three times round the earth last month, not only landed 160 miles short of its intended impact area, it also landed its astronauts in the centre of a strange controversy.

The short landing, in the Atlantic, was due to inaccurate information gathered during wind tunnel tests, and will be corrected in the next four-day flight expected in June.