Tang is a soda sweetened to taste
fruit and not gas that comes from the United States. It is in the form of a powder to be mixed with a quantity of water to prepare a beverage. The original Tang Orange was made by the company General Foods Corporation in 1957 and sold for the first time (as lyophilized ) in 1959.
The product was initially dedicated to breakfast but sales stagnated until NASA uses it in its program of spaceflight Gemini in 1965. This use was the subject of much publicity. Since the Tang is associated with American spaceflight programs.