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Trial to boldly grow food in space labs blasts off

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Mission to boldly grow food in space labs blasts off mission to space.

European Space Agency project is assessing viability of growing so-called lab-grown food in the low gravity and higher radiation of space.

ESA is funding the research to explore new ways of reducing the cost of feeding an astronaut, which can cost up to 20,000 per day.

For now, Jakub is using starches and proteins from naturally occurring fungi to develop his recipes.

He tells me all sorts of dishes will be possible, once he gets the go-ahead to use lab-grown ingredients.

Dr Helen Sharman , the UK 's first astronaut, is a taster-in-chief.

Dr Sharman: Lab-grown food could potentially be better for astronauts.

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