The man growing lettuce for space station salads
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The man growing lettuce for space station salads

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The man growing lettuce for space station salads Jonne Roriz/Getty Images Keeping astronauts healthy in space means plenty of greens. His career in plant breeding, and his path to having his lettuce grown in space, started nearly 40 years ago with a rogue red plant in a sea of green. He’d grown two kinds of lettuce at first, a red romaine and a green salad bowl lettuce, a common style with frilly leaves. When he later contacted the Nasa researcher who’d had the lettuce grown on the International Space Station, he learned that Outredgeous had another unusual quality.

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Sunita Williams takes ‘lettuce’ leap into space farming; all you need to know
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Sunita Williams takes ‘lettuce’ leap into space farming; all you need to know

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NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, currently aboard the International Space Station on an extended eight-month mission, is leading groundbreaking research with a not-so-easy-to-guess ‘lettuce’. Importance of research This research is important for understanding how different amounts of water impact plant growth, which has significant implications for future space missions and agricultural advancements on Earth. Growing plants in space presents unique challenges …

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