Advanced Plant Habitat Stories

Why Do We Grow Plants in Space?
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Why do we grow plants in space? Plants are such versatile organisms that they can fulfill many roles in our exploration of space. Plants provide us with food, with oxygen, they can recycle water and waste, and they can even…
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NASA Invites Public to Engage with Next SpaceX Cargo Launch to Station
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The public is invited to take part in virtual activities and events ahead of the launch of SpaceX’s 28th commercial resupply services mission for NASA to the International Space Station, targeted for no earlier than Saturday, June 3 at 12:35…
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NASA’s Second Pepper Harvest Sets Record on Space Station
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Lea la versión en español aquí. By Jason Costa NASA’s Kennedy Space Center The longest – and perhaps the spiciest – plant experiment in the history of the International Space Station, Plant Habitat-04 (PH-04), concluded recently, 137 days after it began.…
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