Chili can easily be found on Earth. But in outer space, plants that can increase the appetite of this is rare. Hence, the astronaut so merry when can harvest the peppers in the space.
NASA Astronaut Megan McArthur, one of the seven crew members who currently live and work in the International Space Station (ISS), making food tacos using this chili.
McArthur and astronaut others celebrate the success of the harvest chili with a good meal. “This is a taco outer space I create,” said McArthur as quoted from the Space.com.
Through posting on Twitter, McArthur said the astronaut had to eat some red and green bell peppers for a survey of appetite and science research in the future. This is also a part of the testing of food for the long-term missions to the Moon and Mars.
— Megan McArthur (@Astro_Megan) October 29, 2021
Fortunately, the harvest continues because some peppers produce flowers needed to grow other plants. The crew of the space station pollinate some flowers to help the next crop that may occur this month.
“The study of the development of the fruit in the style of heavy micro limited, and researchers NASA has recorded the development of the fruit is low in this experiment for reasons which are not fully yet we understand it today,” said NASA.
— ISS Research (@ISS_Research) October 29, 2021
“The day picking chili” for the first harvest in the ISS took place on 29 October. After that, astronaut party taco. Plants were added to the taco comes from studies of the Planet Habitat-04, which is a series of ongoing efforts to plant a variety of plants in outer space.
Previous harvest ever done in outer space, including mustard Mizuna, radish , lettuce red zinnias, and two types of lettuce and other. Pepper plants arrived at the ISS on June 5, with the mission of supply logistics that brought the rocket SpaceX Dragon CRS-22.
Incidentally, astronaut SpaceX Crew 2, including McArthur, was still on the ship. But originally, they were supposed to return to Earth at the end of October, before the chili is ready to be harvested.
Surely this is a fun coincidence, because of the bad weather that hold them back in fact to bring blessings can harvest and tasting chili space.
The astronauts, in addition to chili, had already managed to plant a few kinds of vegetables such as radishes, lettuce, and kale in outer space. In December 2020, harvest horseradish space first held at the ISS.
NASA said the plant chili in space is more complicated than the vegetables before because the plants bear fruit spicy the germination time is longer and it is also growing more slowly.
The study of plants for food in space by NASA and the space agency of others continue to be held to prepare for the long-term mission in the future. The plants are cultivated in space is expected to be a food supply when the astronauts ventured further in the depths of the universe.
Astronauts get most of the food supply, their fresh from the cargo ship, but the trial version Habitat has previously produced some tasty food. During the three previous harvest, the crew have been enjoying red lettuce grown in space, mustard Mizuna and two types of lettuce, and radishes. Astronauts also planted flowering plants, such as zinnia, to beautify the place of their residence.
Not just chili, the astronauts also had to do a similar thing by planting vegetables such as radishes, lettuce, and kale in outer space. In December 2020, harvest horseradish space first held at the ISS.
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