Space Station Astronauts Eat Space-Grown Lettuce

Credit: NASA
A recent experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has planted seeds that could prove vital to sustaining the lives of astronauts on missions to Mars and other deep-space destinations. On Aug. 10, inside the Columbus lab module, U.S. astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren, joined by...

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