Newsletter Newsletters Events Events Podcasts Videos Africanews
Loader
Latest
Trending
Latest stories
Europe
Categories
Programmes
Featured
World
Categories
Programmes
Featured
EU Policy
Business
Categories
Programmes
Featured
Travel
Categories
Programmes
Next
Categories
Programmes
Featured
Culture
Categories
Programmes
Earth
Categories
Programmes
Featured
Health
Categories
Programmes
Euroviews
Videos
More
Special coverage
Partner content
Services
Newsletter Newsletters Events Events Podcasts Videos Africanews
Loader
Find Us
Flipboard Instagram Linkedin
Advertisement

Astronauts take one giant leaf for mankind with space lettuce

Astronauts take one giant leaf for mankind with space lettuce
Copyright 
By Euronews
Published on
Share Comments
Share Close Button
Copy/paste the article video embed link below: Copy to clipboard Copied

It’s a meal that’s literally out of this world. Astronauts have sunk their teeth into food entirely grown in space for the first time. The lettuce

It’s a meal that’s literally out of this world.

ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT

Astronauts have sunk their teeth into food entirely grown in space for the first time.

The lettuce leaves were grown and harvested by the team on the International Space Station.

NASA has grown food in space for research purposes for years, but this is the first time astronauts have been allowed to eat any.

Go to accessibility shortcuts
Share Comments

Read more

ISS astronauts poised to eat lettuce grown in space

Nasa’s Artemis II crew to reach unseen far side of the Moon on flyby

Greece enters the astronaut era as scientist joins ESA training programme