Tang (drink mix)
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Tang is an American drink mix brand that was formulated by General Foods Corporation food scientist William A. Mitchell[1] and General Foods Corporation chemist William Bruce James[2] in 1957, and first marketed in powdered form in 1959.[3][4] The Tang brand is currently owned in most countries by Mondelēz International, a North American company spun off from Kraft Foods in 2012. Kraft Heinz owns the Tang brand in North America.
Product type | Artificially flavored drink mix |
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Owner | Mondelēz International (except North America) Kraft Heinz (North America) |
Country | U.S. |
Introduced | 1957; 67 years ago (1957) |
Markets | Worldwide |
Previous owners | General Foods Kraft Foods Inc. |
Website | www |
Sales of Tang were poor until NASA used it on John Glenn's Mercury flight in February 1962,[5] and on subsequent Gemini missions.[6] Since then it has been closely associated with the U.S. human spaceflight program, which created the misconception that Tang was invented for the space program.[7][8] Tang continues to be used on NASA missions in the present day, over 50 years after its introduction.[9]