Growing Interest: Students Plant Seeds to Help NASA Farm in Space

Growing Interest: Students Plant Seeds to Help NASA Farm in Space Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Oct 07, 2016 - NASA is seeking plant varieties that could grow best in space, providing food for astronauts to eat on their way to future deep space destinations, including Mars. Teachers and students in South Florida recently began experiments to test a wide spectrum of seeds to see which would flourish in different conditions. "Once you tell the students that the plants are candidates for space and for ... more

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