LONDON: Astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) will for the first time eat food that was grown on the orbiting laboratory after harvesting a crop of ‘Outredgeous’ red romaine lettuce.
“Expedition 44 crew members, including NASA’s one-year astronaut Scott Kelly, are ready to sample the fruits of their labour after harvesting a crop of ‘Outredgeous’ red romaine lettuce Monday, August 10, from the Veggie plant growth system on the nation’s orbiting laboratory,” the US space agency said.
The astronauts will clean the leafy vegetables with citric acid-based, food safe sanitising wipes before consuming them.
They will eat half of the space bounty today, setting aside the other half to be packaged and frozen on the station until it can bezreturned to Earth for scientific analysis.
