Growing Lettuce in Space!
So much space news lately ... Thematically, I just read the Martian last weekend, which was a page turner.
As the International Space Station crew gets ready for the first on-orbit tasting of space-grown lettuce, NASA Commentator Lori Meggs talks with Paul Zamprelli of Orbitec, the company that developed the Veggie greenhouse. This compact hardware was developed with an eye toward supporting future deep space missions beyond Earth orbit, to provide those crew members with a way to grow some of their own food.
I wonder if I'll see someone get to Mars in my lifetime. It seems plausible? Maybe?