MADISON – Lettuce in space: A milestone for NASA and for Madison’s Orbitec

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Salad days are here for astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Or, as one NASA Twitter account put it, “That’s one small bite for a man, one giant leaf for mankind.”

Astronauts had their first taste Monday of “home-grown” lettuce from plants they grew in space, in greenhouse units produced by Orbitec, a Madison company.

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