It's not exactly a greenhouse, but astronauts aboard the ISS have been carefully tending to their garden for years. Time for fruits to join the mix.
Among other spacefaring duties, growing plants up on the International Space Station has been a longtime priority for NASA. The space agency has been off world gardening for years, in the hopes of eventually progressing it past a science experiment to legitimate agriculture.that ISS crew members have begun the next phase, Veg-05, in the ongoing gardening experiment by growing dwarf tomatoes.
"We are testing tomatoes, looking at the impacts of light spectrum on how well the crop grows, how delicious and nutritious the tomatoes are, and the microbial activity on the fruit and plants," said NASA Life Sciences project scientist Gioia Massa in an earlier. "We also are examining the overall effect of growing, tending, and eating crops on crew behavioral health. All of this will provide valuable data for future space exploration.
The tomatoes will be grown on the Vegetable Production System, or Veggie, the station's space garden that astronauts have used to grow some of their food. We're not talking about a greenhouse, though. Veggie is only about the size of a suitcase, but that hasn't stopped astronauts from successfully growing lettuces, cabbages, kale,
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