Astronauts in space to grow cucumbers, tomatoes

Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa said on Monday that he plans to plant cucumbers on the International Space Station (ISS), there are media reports said Tuesday.

Furukawa Song on Wednesday to begin a six-month mission on board the International Space Station along with Russian Sergei Volkov and the United States • Michael Fu Sam.

The scheme in the next few months experiment, Furukawa said he would grow into a part of the ongoing research on how future space explorers will be able to harvest their own food cucumber.

"We hope that we can eat the cucumber, but we are not allowed," Furukawa, doctors said at a news conference.

Volkov said that Russia will be growing tomatoes and some astronauts joked that he hopes can be allowed to prepare salad.

"In the Russian module, we have to increase tomato, we are not allowed to eat. However, we might let us make a cucumber tomato salad."

Astronauts, who are they in the Russian leased Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan task waiting, sitting behind the protective glass plate at a news conference to avoid contact.

They are due to return to Earth in mid-November.

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