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Astronaut Mark Vande Hei samples a space-grown red chile pepper

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Nov 03, 2021
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Astronaut Mark Vande Hei samples a space-grown red chile pepper
Astronaut Mark Vande Hei samples a space-grown red chile pepper.

iss066e023198 (October 29, 2021) — NASA astronaut and Expedition 66 Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei samples a red chile pepper that was part of a crop of chile peppers grown in space for the first time aboard the International Space Station for the Plant Habitat-04 investigation.