LONDON, England, April 22 -- Imperial College-London issued the following news:

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First microbes blast off testing production of food for space travel

By Simon Levey

A miniature lab has been launched into Earth orbit containing microbes designed to produce edible proteins in space.

Imperial scientists are looking ahead to when human space missions will take us to other planets in or beyond the Solar System.

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