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NASA is growing chili peppers in space Published: July 19, 2021 11:22 PM EDT Outer space is getting spicier, thanks to a new NASA initiative to add a little more flavor to astronauts’ diets. NASA announced last week that astronauts aboard the International Space Station are growing red and green chile peppers for the very first time. Hatch chile pepper seeds arrived at the station in June, thanks to a SpaceX commercial resupply services mission. NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, who launched to the ISS in April, initiated the experiment, dubbed Plant Habitat-04 (PH-04). He’s grown plants on...

SpaceX: SpaceX Cargo Dragon Capsule splashes down near Tallahassee Facebook: Tallahassee Saturday in the Park SpaceX Dragon capsule and last updated 2021-07-10 01:44:08-04 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — On Friday night, the skies could be lighting up depending on the weather where you are. The Dragon Capsule made a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico around 11:32 p.m., according to SpaceX's Twitter page. Splashdown of Dragon confirmed, completing SpaceX’s 22nd cargo resupply mission to the @space_station!— SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 10, 2021 NASA announced Thursday that the SpaceX Cargo Drag...

Pictures from space! Our image of the day Space 16/02/2021 Space.com Staff © Provided by Space Valentine Island in northern Western Australia is a swirling mix of blues and reddish browns, as seen from space by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. The mission, which is made up of two satellites, imaged the tiny island for Valentine's Day. Valentine Island is just about 1 mile (1.60 kilometers) long and 0.15 miles (250 meters) wide and can be found in the King Sound, a large gulf that has one of the highest tides in all of Australia. Space can be a wondrous place, and we've ...

Pictures from space! Our image of the day Space 2/5/2021 Space.com Staff © Provided by Space The European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission snapped this chilly photo of New York City on Feb. 4, 2021 showing the city blanketed in snow. This recent snow storm was classified as "major" and affected a majority of the Northeast United States, with New York declaring a state of emergency for both the immense snowfall and blistering winds. Copernicus Sentinel-2 is an Earth-observing mission made up of two satellites: Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B. The pair monitor and i...

In this photo, a scientist at the European Space Agency's Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory at the ESTEC technical center in the Netherlands works on essential mission work.