Question of the Day #116 · July 17, 2026
Which vegetable was the first to be successfully grown and harvested in space?
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Potato
The first vegetable successfully grown and harvested in space was a crop of spring onions aboard Salyut 4 in 1975, not potatoes. Cosmonauts Pyotr Klimuk and Vitaly Sevastyanov ate the onions during the mission.