Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of 'Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space” published by Smithsonian Books in 2018. He previously developed online content for the National Space Society and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, helped establish the space tourism company Space Adventures and currently serves on the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society, the advisory committee for The Mars Generation and leadership board of For All Moonkind. In 2009, he was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2021, he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.
Standing about 3 feet tall , Goldman's cake depicted the SLS just after liftoff, with a plume of clouds beginning to form around the exhaust from the rocket's four main engines and twin solid rocket boosters. Using fondant and food color, Goldman and his team at Charm City Cakes were able to reproduce the burnt-orange look of the SLS's core stage and capture small details, such as the NASA and ESA logos on the spacecraft fairing.
Celebrity chefs Duff Goldman, Marc Murphy and Rocco DiSpirito with astronauts Sandy Magnus, Bruce Melnick and Scott Altman at the"Taste of Space."... we get all of the data that we can on whatever it is we are going to make. And then we just go through it, trying to match certain colors and things like that. It's a whole process," Goldman said during the event.
The cake also included the tower that supports the SLS atop its mobile launcher. The grey gantry was finished with theDuff Goldman's Space Launch System -shaped cake stands before its inspiration on launchpad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Before the"Taste of Space" attendees could partake in the cake, Goldman had the opportunity to size up his work during a private visit to Launch Complex 39B.
"[They] got us permission to bring that cake out in front of the rocket and get a picture of it," Goldman said."That was a once-in-a-lifetime thing. It was incredible."
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