{"id":233529,"date":"2025-08-01T12:48:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/after-egusi-more-nigerian-foods-will-be-sent-to-space-oniosun-channels-television\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T12:48:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:48:31","slug":"after-egusi-more-nigerian-foods-will-be-sent-to-space-oniosun-channels-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/after-egusi-more-nigerian-foods-will-be-sent-to-space-oniosun-channels-television\/","title":{"rendered":"After Egusi, More Nigerian Foods Will Be Sent To Space \u2014 Oniosun \u2022 Channels Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Egusi, More Nigerian Foods Will Be Sent To Space \u2014 Oniosun \u2022 Channels Television<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Founder of Space In Africa, Temidayo Oniosun, says after sending Nigerian melon seeds locally known as \u2018egusi\u2019 to Space, more Nigerian foods will be sent to Space.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oniosun, who was a guest on Channels Television\u2019s <em>The Morning Brief<\/em> programme on Friday, said egusi was chosen over other Nigerian soup ingredients because of its cultural symbolism and national acceptance.<\/p>\n<p>By 4pm Nigerian time on Friday, August 1, 2025, egusi seeds will become the first Nigerian object in orbit, launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for NASA\u2019s Crew-11 mission to the ISS.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>See full video:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sending Egusi To Space: After Egusi, More Nigerian Foods Will Be Sent To Space \u2014 Oniosun\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qs2oNSLnujI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>NASA,SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/2025\/08\/01\/video-after-egusi-more-nigerian-foods-will-be-sent-to-space-oniosun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Egusi, More Nigerian Foods Will Be Sent To Space \u2014 Oniosun \u2022 Channels Television \u00a0 Founder of Space In Africa, Temidayo Oniosun, says after sending Nigerian melon seeds locally known as \u2018egusi\u2019 to Space, more Nigerian foods will be sent to Space. Oniosun, who was a guest on Channels Television\u2019s The Morning Brief programme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[173],"tags":[110,1171],"class_list":["post-233529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nasa","tag-spacex-falcon-9-rocket"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}