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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.

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

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

A greenhouse called Lada has been aboard the ISS since 2002 and has been used to study plant growth in microgravity for many years.

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.

Nestle has been in the middle of India’s worst meals scare in a decade after a regulator within the northern state of Uttar Pradesh in May stated it discovered extra lead in a pattern of the agency’s well-liked Maggi noodles.

It has taking into consideration that questioned the results along the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) with the Bombay High Court.