Space Farming: The Final Frontier

I’m very curious about this, and hope to see more space farming happening. Also, Diary of a Space Zucchini!


“Growing food in space helps solve one of the biggest issues in space travel: the price of eating. It costs roughly $10,000 a pound to send food to the ISS, according to Howard Levine, project scientist for NASA’s International Space Station and Spacecraft Processing Directorate. There’s a premium on densely caloric foods with long shelf lives. Supply shuttles carry such limited fresh pr...

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Published on September 10, 2013 12:10
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