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Zero kilometer vegetables in space: lettuce is grown in the spacecraft

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Humans eat and astronauts are no exception. So far we have gone into space with freeze-dried foods in the first period and now with vacuum-packed ones, more and more refined and appetizing to be honest.

But now the situation changes: we will have residential cities on the Moon and Mars, space stations of all kinds, public and private, and finally space tourists who, for the moment, are in the air for a few hours, but in the immediate future they will not have. then needs so different from real astronauts.

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The change is also a good business opportunity for those who, like Italy, have one of their best internationally recognized flags in good food. It is in this perspective that SpaceV, a Genoese startup made up of five partners, all highly qualified in their field, of which one, Franco Malerba, is also somehow the spokesperson towards the world of us earthlings.

Fresh vegetables on board

Yes, because he was the first Italian astronaut, and one of the few civilians, even though he was actually an officer in the navy, albeit a complement. He ate the food they gave in the Space Shuttle, which departed on July 31, 1992, and perhaps for this reason he often repeats, speaking of SpaceV, which stands for Space Vegetables, that their product will allow you to have fresh vegetables, and emphasizes fresh , in orbit or on the Moon and Mars.

“SpaceV’s mission is to make a decisive contribution to the life support systems of astronauts through effective agricultural production in their vehicles, thus improving the sustainability of manned space travel, both for exploration and research and for tourism purposes, in stations orbiting around the Earth and as far as the Moon and Mars “, says Malerba to clarify what prompted the creation of this startup that essentially benefits and applies a patent from another company, Germina, which is considered the parent company .

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