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Space Cucumbers

The Guardian

Expect a Jamie Oliver series dealing with space-station nutrition very soon.

Satoshi Furukawa is set to blast off early on Wednesday for a half-year stint in orbit along with Sergei Volkov, a Russian, and Michael Fossum, an American. He said he would be growing cucumbers to research how future space explorers could harvest their own food.

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