NASA’s latest experiment on the ISS was growing green chile peppers as an ongoin effort to establish ways to grow food crops on long-duration space missions. The data collected here will be used in future space production of crops by examining the reliability of the APH environmental control systems, LED lighting system, sensor-controlled water delivery system, and data downlink / control capabilities.
Astronaut Megan McArthur took some of these harvested hatch peppers and made possibly the best space tacos yet, filled wit fajita beef, re-hydrated tomatoes as well as artichokes. NASA hopes to eventually feed crews in low-Earth orbit, all the while sustaining explorers during future missions beyond low-Earth orbit to destinations including the Moon, as part of the Artemis program, and eventually the Red Planet.
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Happy pepper picking day aboard the Space Station !Hot pepperToday. Astro_Sabot gets the honor of harvesting the station’s first crop of chile peppers as a part of the Plant Habitat-04 study, one of the most challenging station plant experiments to date,” according to the official ISS Research Twitter account.
