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Space Eats

Astronaut journey to Mars requires new age nibbles

By Alexandra Witze

- More than 2 years ago

Even an Iron Chef couldn’t master what a food-centric cadre of NASA scientists do every day: Devise tasty, healthy meals for astronauts to take into low-Earth orbit and beyond — perhaps even to Mars.

Lettuce and chard are among crops tested at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for future space gardens.