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NASA astronauts on the worldwide Space Station (ISS) have grown the first ever vegetables in space-and are about to eat them.

According to the competition rules, the app must have certain features that replicate the current NASA practice of employing laptops and iPads as part of the user interface with the space station.

Astronauts Scott Kelly, Kjell Lindgren, and Kimiya Yui all munched on red romaine lettuce this afternoon, except unlike your sad desk salad, this produce was grown on the worldwide Space Station.

It seems like NASA astronauts can now add space farmers to their curriculum vitae as the Americans have shown everyone from the worldwide Space Station their dinner of red romaine lettuce that has been grown and harvested in space.

William Jeffs, a spokesman for NASA Johnson Space Center, told USA TODAY, seeds of the red romaine seeds were planted on July 8 on board the ISS where a small greenhouse has been set using LEDs called “Veggie”.

“Bon appetit!” Scott Kelly, the station’s US commander, bid Kjell Lindgren and Kimiya Yui, his fellow astronauts, as they each took a leaf.

Astronauts aboard the global Space Station are officially the first humans in history to ever eat space-grown lettuce.

While space food has come a long way since the freeze-dried ice cream and Tang you remember from childhood, the vacuum of space isn’t exactly an ideal environment for growing fresh food.

Discovery of a new planetary system has helped astronomers know about a super-earth that transits in front of a star and has a density similar to earth’s.

While it orbits too close to the star to be hospitable, its proximity to the star makes it an ideal target for future studies of its atmosphere, if it has one.

The temperature of the planet with the shortest orbit, HD219134b is approximately 700 degrees Kelvin (800 Fahrenheit), the authors said, meaning the planet is not in the habitable zone of its star.

Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of the nearest rocky planet outside of our solar system.

This older, bigger cousin to Earth is called Kepler-452b. However, the star it orbits is visible to the naked eye.

The planetary system, HD219134, contains three super-earths and one outer giant planet.

Planet HD 219134b is much closer to Earth – only 21 light-years away.