Chickpeas could become the first food grown on the Moon

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As NASA prepares for the Artemis II mission and a renewed push to explore the Moon, scientists are thinking about a practical challenge for future astronauts: what they will eat. New research from The University of Texas at Austin suggests that chickpeas could be part of the answer.

In a recent experiment, scientists successfully grew and harvested chickpeas using simulated "moon dirt." This is the first time the crop has been produced in a material designed t...

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