In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Bruce Bugbee: a real-life space botanist who says a one-way trip to Mars means a one-way trip to a meatless diet. Not surprisingly, he also found a few nits to pick with “The Martian” and the greenness of  fictional astronaut Mark Watney’s thumb.

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SHOW NOTES:

Bruce’s CV.

A Bruce TEDx Talk. Some overlap with this episode, but 15 more minutes of Bruce on plants, if it piqued your interest.

Bruce blogs botany on Mars over at HuffPo.

Dan Leone is a SpaceNews staff writer, covering NASA, NOAA and a growing number of entrepreneurial space companies. He earned a bachelor’s degree in public communications from the American University in Washington.