Vegans, now you too can fly to the moon and play among the stars. You too can see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars.
Yes, space travelers now have a veggie spread to replace all those meat- and dairy-based products they ingest in space. At least, we think they do. But what do we know?
The spread, Veg@eez, was created by a team of Penn State students. It is made from minimally processed spinach, chard, tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes and radishes and combined with spices.
Yum, huh?
So our astronauts must be feeling like pigs in ... uh, mud.
First the Chinese develop a space program. Now this.
Which means that sometime soon, spacepersons not only can have their veggies, but they can get their kung pao chicken delivered.

Posted at May 13, 2004 02:07 PM