00:03When you were a kid, you no doubt tried something like this, or what most consider a quintessential astronaut food,
00:09freeze-dried ice cream.
00:11In reality, astronauts orbiting our planet eat very different things, mostly consumed from tubes.
00:16But recently, this was the meal aboard China's Tiangong Space Station.
00:20Real-life vegetables they grew themselves in space.
00:23The process isn't easy, involving the spacefarers pollinating the plants by hand, since there aren't any bees in space.
00:30Right now, they're growing cherry tomatoes and some leafy greens, but that's not all they're eating.
00:34New Year's Day included a veritable feast prepared by their colleagues down in mission control.
00:39This marks the end of the second year of China's space station operations, with their space program having several important
00:44missions related to it.
00:46They're currently conducting experiments related to physics in combustion and material sciences in microgravity.
00:52And of course, they're continuing their life sciences experimentation, including that related to the human body.
00:57And of course, growing food in space.
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