Tang (drink mix)

Tang is an American drink mix brand that was formulated by General Foods Corporationfood scientistWilliam A. Mitchell and chemist William Bruce James in 1957, and first marketed in powdered form in 1959. The Tang brand is 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.

Sales of Tang were poor until NASA used it on John Glenn's Mercury flight in February 1962. 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. Tang continues to be used on NASA missions in the present day, over 50 years after its introduction.