Starship kimchi.

• Position: SPACE - Brief article

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Kimchi, the fermented cabbage dish Koreans have with almost every meal, is about to head into orbit. When South Korea's first astronaut, Yi So-yeon, blasts off April 8 on a Russian spaceship bound for the International Space Station, her beloved national dish will be on board. It took researchers several years and millions of dollars to perfect a kimchi that would not turn lethal when exposed to cosmic rays in space. Since 1961, 34 countries, including Vietnam, Mongolia, and...