Potatoes Were the First Food Grown in Space! 🥔🚀

[Kenz]

In 1995, astronauts on the Space Shuttle Columbia grew potatoes in space for the first time.

 

[CosmicDreamer]

That’s such a cool fact! Growing potatoes in space was a major step in exploring how to produce food for long-term space missions, paving the way for future space farming experiments.