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Indian restaurant owner, Niraj Gadher, who runs Chai Walla in Bath, likes to think big. And that’s why he sent a samosa into space. While his first two attempts to launch the savoury snack into the great beyond ended in failure, it looks like the third time was the charm – sort of.

Gadher managed to get the samosa up, up, up and away but then lost track of the snack when the GPS signal failed. However, after returning to Earth the following day, the GPS tracker revealed that the package had made its way across southern England, crossed the Channel and had crash landed in Caix in northern France. However, the samosa isn’t the strangest thing to be sent into space. Read on to find out what strange items mankind has sent up into space.

While this order would not have taken 30 minutes or less, in 2001, Pizza Hut became the first company to deliver a pizza into space. The brand struck a deal with the Russian space agency Roscosmos to have a pizza delivered to Russian cosmonaut Yuri Usachov at the International Space Station (ISS). The delivery was reportedly worth $1 million at the time.

In 2010, SpaceX launched a wheel of Gruyère cheese into space. While CEO Elon Musk was secretive about the cargo at first, once the mission was accomplished he revealed that it was in homage to a Monty Python skit where John Cleese tries to order cheese from a cheeseless cheese shop.

In 2019, lab grown meat made its debut aboard the International Space Station. Israel-based startup Aleph Farms created the world's first steak grown inside a laboratory and decided to send it out into the atmosphere. They sent the necessary tools as well and the astronaut had to make a piece of steak using cow cells and a 3D printer.

Coca-Cola and Pepsi took their rivalry into the great beyond. In 1985, modified cans carried both companies' fizzy sugar drinks into low Earth orbit on a space shuttle Challenger mission. However, astronauts were banned from showing the cans on TV to avoid tainting NASA with advertising.

The Adani Group, now the country’s biggest conglomerate by market capitalisation, Friday completed the acquisition of Ambuja Cements and its listed subsidiary ACC and committed more funds through a record preferential allotment of stock, demonstrating the intent to cement the group's leadership credentials in India’s building-materials industry by 2030.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi called upon Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member states to give transit access to each other in a message aimed at boosting connectivity to ensure resilient supply chains in the region.

Indian equities tumbled close to 2% on Friday, tracking weakness in global markets, as stronger-than-expected economic readings in the US raised expectations of aggressive rate increases by the American central bank at next week’s policy meeting. Warnings from the International Monetary Front (IMF) and the World Bank on the economic outlook added to market woes.

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