Growing Vegetables In Space, NASA Astronauts Tweet Their Lunch

An anonymous reader writes: Astronauts on the International Space Station got their first taste of space-grown lettuce today. It took the astronauts about an hour to harvest and prepare the lettuce both plain and with oil and vinegar. The Times reports: "The vegetable experiment had been a long-awaited harvest for the astronauts, who say that the ability to grow and sustain crops in space may someday aid travelers on long space trips. Cultivating crops is seen as a critical step in the path to traveling to Mars, for instance. Before the harvest, the astronauts did what any sensible Earthling with a Wi-Fi connection would do: They celebrated lunch in an exclusive locale by tweeting a picture of the goods."

Comments

Negative calories

[XxtraLarGe]

It took the astronauts about an hour to harvest and prepare the lettuce both plain and with oil and vinegar.

Sounds like they burned off more calories than they gained in this exercise.

Re:Lettuce should not be pink

[Anonymous Coward]

Lettuce has almost no nutritional value. They should be experimenting with beans or root crops like carrots.