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NASA Harvests Lettuce for Space Station Study
NASA Harvests Lettuce for Space Station Study NASA has harvested lettuce from its Advanced Plant Habitat ground unit as part of an experiment to study plant growth in microgravity. The experiment aims to understand how optimal and suboptimal moisture conditions affect plant growth, nutrient content, and the plant microbiome in space. This research is part […]
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Why Do We Grow Plants in Space?
Why Do We Grow Plants in Space? Growing plants in space helps create a sustainable environment for human presence in space, providing food, oxygen, water recycling, and psychological benefits. The study of plant growth in space also allows scientists to investigate how plants adapt to novel environments, develop new technologies, and improve agricultural techniques on […]
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