Astronauts to eat first food grown in space

Posted on 10 Aug 2015 by Michael Cruickshank
Lettuce grown within the Veggie experiment on the ISS. Image courtesy of Nasa.
A team of astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) will today become the first people to eat food grown in space. The astronauts plan to harvest lettuce grown on board the ISS as part of Nasa’s ‘Veggie’ plant growth experiment to create the first food grown in space. Several red lettuce plants from the ‘Outredgeous’…

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