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One Small Bite For Man: NASA Astronauts To Eat Space-Grown Food

“Today on the International Space Station, a batch of romaine lettuce became the first food grown and consumed in space. The leaves were harvested from NASA’s experimental plant growth system called Veg-01, a microgravity environment in which plants grow from seed “pillows” under primarily red and blue LED lights.”

Read more about space-plants from NPR