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ROCKET FUEL

Any new way to excite and encourage us to eat our vegies is always welcome and the latest comes from space research in the form of a delicious salad designed to feed astronauts on long space journeys.

The plan is that astronauts can grow many of the ingredients on board while travelling into deep space then harvest them and create the salad.

Trials have been underway for several years to grow both ornamental and edible plants in zero gravity.

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