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ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet and the rest of the International Space Station crew admiring the green hot peppers they've harvested.
Thomas shared this image on his social media channels with the caption: "Pepper harvest! They say you shouldn't play with your food, but after six months with almost no fresh food, and living in weightlessness it is so hard not to be excited. We ate the peppers after watching them grow for months last Friday, and they were tasty… and a little bit hot! A huge shout out and thank you to the researchers and engineers at NASA that made this possible, growing food in space is not easy, and was not even possible until a few years ago."
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