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New ways of producing food in space

May 19, 2015 Updated 06:10 BST

A major problem for the long haul, space research is how to feed astronauts from Earth for a long time.

Growing food in space seems an obvious answer - but it's not so simple.

So now a project is launched, which will see spending thousands of school experiments in the seeds of the six months on the International Space Station.

Correspondent Pallab Ghosh Science reported.

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