Tasting the Lettuce in the international space station Monday for the first time debased planted in space, the first step in the field of agriculture in conditions of weightlessness, which can be used to feed astronauts traveling on long space flights in the future.
And hopes the US space agency NASA that this success is a step in its quest to secure a renewed food sources for astronauts who might in the future traveling to distant destinations, especially manned flight, which hopes to implement in the coming years or decades to Mars.
Said Kjell Lindgren astronaut from NASA after tasting some red lettuce which grew in a private box at the station , " it's great ".
The US astronaut Scott Kelly " tastes delicious . " He added some olive oil and vinegar on lettuce leaf.
Said Ray Wheeler official at the US space agency for developing technologies that believes in living conditions in the space program , " There are indications that fresh fruits and vegetables such as tomatoes, grapes, lettuce, are antioxidants . "
Gyoya Massa, a researcher at NASA " I think the farming systems in the absence of gravity will be important factors for each long space flight . "
She added , " The further away from the earth, man would be more need for agriculture to secure food, the environment in which they live and rotate, and also to get psychological comfort . "
NASA said that this type of foods grown in space underwent tests to ascertain the suitability of ma
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