Astronauts grow lettuce in space
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Astronauts may no longer have to miss out on eating freshly picked, gourmet salads. Researchers have successfully grown lettuce that is nutritious and safe to eat on a space station.
This is welcome news for the space voyagers, who subsist on processed, pre-packaged rations that have been sterilised through heating, freeze drying or irradiation such as fruits, nuts, chocolate, shrimp cocktails, peanut butter and beef.
Published by Cosmos.