Grown in Space!

This week on the menu for astronauts aboard the International Space Station: a purplish-green sample of romaine lettuce, the first plant ever to be grown and eaten in space. NASA’s plant experiment, called Veg-01, has been used to study the ability to produce crops while in-orbit over the last year, and scientists hope the result will be the chance for astronauts to be able to grow their own food in space during missions that take them far away from our planet — like to Mars. I still think Earth-grown food is better.