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Alicia Civita

Tortillas Make It to Deep Space on Artemis II, and There's a Latino Story Behind It

When NASA's Artemis II crew blasted off Wednesday on humanity's first crewed journey toward the moon in more than 50 years, they brought with them cutting-edge technology, years of training, and one deeply practical staple with an unmistakably Latino resonance: tortillas.

Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen took an interesting menu aboard the Orion spacecraft for a mission expected to last just under 10 days and swing around the moon before returning to Earth.

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