Students try out space salads

STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. -- Fourth and fifth-graders helped harvest aeroponically grown lettuce on Monday at Infinity Science Center, then ate the same salads an astronaut might eat. The students from Mays Prepatory in New Orleans assisted in the first harvest from the Controlled Environment Agriculture exhibit, which grows lettuce in about 35 days without the use of soil. The CEA is a prototype developed and built by Innovative Imaging & Research with funding from Stennis Space Center's Chief Technologist’s Office and the University of Southern Mississippi's Business and Innovation Assistance Center in partnership with the Mississippi Enterprise for Technology. (Source: Sun Herald, 05/07/12)