While we were eating Thanksgiving leftovers and shopping sales on Black Friday, astronauts on the International Space Station had a special taco night to celebrate their second successful chile pepper harvest.
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As with the first historic chile pepper picking on October 29, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei had the honor of completing the longest plant experiment in the history of the space station on November 26, 137 days after it began in July. Although 12 of the peppers will be returned to Earth, the crew, including NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Dr. Thomas Marshburn, Kayla Barron and European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer, sampled some of the 26 chile peppers grown from four plants.
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