Fun Fact: Vegetables in Space

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In 1995, the potato became the first vegetable to be grown in space. More recently, in 2015, astronauts on the International Space Station ate red romaine lettuce grown in space.

Photograph by Holger Casselmann/Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA-3.0.

Photograph by Holger Casselmann/Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA-3.0.

In 1995, the potato became the first vegetable to be grown in space. More recently, in 2015, astronauts on the International Space Station ate red romaine lettuce grown in space.

  

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