Gardens in unusual places: in orbit

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                                   Veggie (Vegetable Production System). Photo NASA/ISS

 

A bit short on aesthetics, but last year, this garden produced the first fresh food grown in space to be actually eaten up there in the International Space Station. It was a welcome 3-lettuce salad, albeit lightly flavoured by the mandatory antibacterial/antimicrobial wipe. Ah, to be an astronaut.

June 2018