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Future Mars Astronauts Could Snack on NASA's Space-Grown Tomatoes

Well, here's the long and complicated name of the Veg-05 study: The Pick-and-Eat Salad-Crop Productivity Nutritional Value, and Acceptability to Supplement the ISS Food System investigation.
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SpaceX launches 5,000 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station, lands rocket at sea (video)

SpaceX launched its 33rd Dragon cargo mission early Sunday morning (Aug. 24), sending 5,000 pounds of cargo toward the ...

Future of farming? How astronauts are growing food in space

In a discussion with PM Narendra Modi, Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla highlighted the importance of food in ...
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Shuttle used to supply the ISS with food is damaged as future trips are ...

A spacecraft used to bring food, fuel and other supplies to the International Space Station has been damaged, putting future trips on hold. NASA and Northrop Grumman had planned to launch a Cygnus ...
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You Say Tomato, NASA Says Let's Grow Them In Space And Feed Them To ...

Growing fresh food during those future missions will be vital. This is why it is so exciting and important that the new Veg-05 space agriculture study is taking place now aboard ISS.
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Space-Grown Lettuce Faces Food Safety Concerns on the ISS

This has evolved from dehydrated food during the Apollo missions to regular food that astronauts can get shipped from Earth. But an astronaut’s diet expanded thanks to a 2020 study published in ...