Black and White and Read All Over: When Tang was out of this world

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OPINION/COLUMN

Are you at all familiar with Tang, the orange drink mix?

If so, do you remember how our government utilized it back around 1962?

Now there’s a question with an answer that will date you … and good!

I asked a certain thirteenyear-old to find me some Tang in a store a few days ago and I was met with, “What’s Tang?”

I said, “You know, Tang, that orange drink mix that goes in water.”

“Nope.”

“The stuff that…