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as we continue to look at journeying

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farther into deep space one of the more

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important things that's going to have to

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be a reality for crews is to be able to

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grow their own foods well the good news

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is that's already actively happening on

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board the space station

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lori meigs out at the payload operations

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integration center at the marshall space

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flight center

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reporting that by this time next week

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station crew members will be eating

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lettuce that they grew on the space

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station in a unit appropriately called

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veggie this is going to be the first

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food ever grown harvested and then eaten

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in space by our u.s crews she spoke with

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paul zamparelli with the company that

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developed veggie to find out more

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we grew

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its first

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crops

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as you can say red lettuce

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that was harvested and brought down on

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spacex

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to get it analyzed um for

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microbials and and any kind of

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impurities that may have

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um attached itself from the main cabin

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let's

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they could need it

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right well what's unique about this is

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that it's an open air and it's the first

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open air

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vegetable garden up there to grow

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food and as you can imagine there's

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things floating in the air and

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it's unknown

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exactly if if it was edible but

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that that is good news the good news is

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it is edible and um so we are

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and have a thumbs up by by nasa to be

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able to grow and let

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the astronauts

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use it as a dietary filler

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for future things hugely important to

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the future correct yes because we've got

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to be able to grow our own food to go

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farther correct yeah i mean we all

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started from plants so this is how we

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intend moan mars in the future a

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long-duration space to survive

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what have you heard feedback from

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astronauts who got to actually grow the

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stuff oh they loved it and in fact

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when they came back here and they did

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their speeches it was a lot on veggie um

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veggie is something that is very you

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know wholesome and good and

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and fun it was a lot of fun for them to

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tend to the garden

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and tend to the plants it turned out

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very well on the first flight we did put

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extra

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red leaf lettuce and flowers so

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right now with the crew time they're

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going to start engaging in that growing

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the lettuce again

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and flowers and we hope to get some very

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good

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one of the things with the flowers i may

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point out

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is that they're going to

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see how the flowers pollinate uh within

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a zero gravity

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state and and and study that which is

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very important as well

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because of the pollination for fruit and

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future things that really need to happen

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will they get to eat this lettuce since

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you've already gotten it approved or

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will it have to come back so i hope so

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so i there's no reason not to

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now what you learned up there will that

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help me with my garden it will and it

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already has and and the the goodness

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that all of this is coming from i'm

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working with countries like dubai who

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have

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the problem of

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um importing almost 95 of all their

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fruits and vegetables because of the

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horrendous heat and environment for

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growing things there so what we're doing

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is we're working with them taking these

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same type units like veggie and burying

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them into the sand big huge warehouses

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that they can then use the abundance of

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sun using solar they have abundance of

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water but it's controlled environment