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- Astronauts living aboard the International Space Station had the opportunity to taste-test some food that was grown in their own orbiting laboratory.
- Radishes grown on the space station took 27 days to mature, and eventually became a meal for the crew.
- The radishes were apparently just as good as anything you could grow back on Earth, and it's a big step toward the future of space agriculture.
If humans ever hope to colonize other planets or travel outside of our own solar system, we're going to have to need a steady supply of food available for the brave travelers to consume. One way of ensuring that food is plentiful during such a mission would be to grow and harvest crops at the destination planet or, even better, onboard the spacecraft that is making the trip.
To that end, NASA has been slowly working to master the art of growing things in space. Most recently, astronauts aboard the International Space Station were tasked with growing radishes in the APH, or Advanced Planet Habitat. The process was delicate, with lots of preparation, but ultimately it all paid off in the form of healthy, perfectly edible radishes. And what do we do with edible radishes? We eat them.
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