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  • Astronauts munch on space-grown lettuce

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Amid a Russian spacewalk to carry out routine maintenance and inspections outside the International Space Station, two NASA astronauts and a Japanese crewmate staged a culinary first in orbit — harvesting and eating a few leaves of leafy, space-grown red romaine lettuce. Astronaut Scott Kelly later tweeted the…