Feeding space colonoists farm-fresh produce is one step closer to reality, now that NASA’s Veg-01 experiment results are in from the International Space Station, showing resounding success with red lettuce. Locavore astronauts are readying for their second space-farm-to-fork mission.

Last month 100 finalists were named out of 200,000 applicants to be Earth’s first inhabitants of Mars when the one-way ship launches for the red planet just ten years from now. It’s one of those things you keep hearing about but you think will never happen, like self-driving cars (now with bumpers on the outside, to protect pedestrians, yikes) or your 40th birthday. But it’s almost here, and we will need to feed those people.

Fortunately, a lot of scientists spend their days