Cultivating Plant Growth in ISS

The ability to grow food in space will be very important, to support human nutrition in future missions into deep space.   Watch how plants grow in space…

NASA Commentator Lori Meggs at the Marshall Space Flight Center speaks to researchers Robert Ferl and Anna-Lisa Paul of the University of Florida about their Advanced Plant experiments on the International Space Station, in which they have already learned a great deal—and gotten some interesting surprises—about how plants grow in space.

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source NASA