Space Station Greenhouse Bears Fruit

[Skywizard]

A new crop grows for the experimental greenhouse on board the International Space Station.


Well, vegetables to be precise. So says a researcher with Russia’s Institute of Biomedical Problems, which is partnered with Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory in an experimental greenhouse named Lada aboard the International Space Station.

So far, station crews have harvested peas, leafy greens and a variety of dwarf wheat, all of which have now been certified as safe to eat, according to Russian researcher Margarita Levinskikh, who spoke this week at a conference in Moscow, the Russian news service RIA Novosti reports.

After undergoing repairs this year, the greenhouse will be restocked with rice, tomatoes and bell peppers, RIA said.

In addition to eventually supplementing the crew’s diet, the crops will be analyzed to see if they genetically change in space.


Plants grow inside the space station's experimental greenhouse named Lada.


Source: http://news.discovery.com/space/orbi...uit-140131.htm


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skywizard

[pine boy]

I can't possibly be the only one thinking Space Weed.

[Deega]

Ha!, that's great!, gaining experience on how to grow vegs in Space!, thanks Skywizard to share this information.

The best to you!

[778 neighbour of some guy]

Posted by pine boy (here)
I can't possibly be the only one thinking Space Weed.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AYU0Q6mhD20

[sirdipswitch]

Allex Collier saud the Andromedans had three "gardens" on their ship. Each one was 27 miles across. hmm.

[Ellisa]

What a great story, I did not know that they grew real plants on the Space Station, and they look really healthy. Actually they look much better than some of my veggies after the recent 40c+ temperatures we have been having since Christmas. And only 7ml of rain in January too! It's too hot here for anything to thrive at the moment, and everything is getting crispy and burned.

[ghostrider]

One more step toward living in cosmic space ... We will build giant ships with drifting gardens , and we will be able to live in space , self sufficient without the need of a planet ... again the henoch prophecy , everything is moving towards what Enoch wrote long ago ...Henoch-Enoch same person ...