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NASA To Study Plants To Help Astronauts Grow Food In Space
No offense intended but whats new about this? They were spinning plants
many years ago, grew lots of different stuff on Mir and possibly skylab. So whats new and different? |
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NASA To Study Plants To Help Astronauts Grow Food In Space
Many people were involved in a fairly ambitious effort to incorporate plants
into the life support systems in order to be used for food, oxygen, and water recovery. Everything at JSC, KSC, and several universities was ground based because of the size and complex nature of the equipment. It was our dream to grow tomatoes on the moon but new programs and competation for funding has pushed the technology development efforts for plant growth in space to the back. Only very small experiments like the Arabidopsis experiments are all that is left. It will be a long time before real fruit and vegetables are grown on the space station unless an astronaut takes some seeds in his pocket. Keith Henderson "John Doe" wrote in message ... wrote: "Arabidopsis thaliana is a common weed, which we've found in our parking lots," said Mike Eodice, the experiment's project manager at NASA Ames Research Center, At the point of the station's life, they should have gone way beyond groing a weed and should have had regular production of vegetables on the station. It is about time they start this research. This is way overdue and I hope they quickly move from growing useless weeds to growing real fruits/vegetables. Heck, growing tomatoes in space should have been done years ago to study the effects of 0G on plants and fruits. And BTW, I can just see the headlines in the media: "Astronauts grow weed in space". |
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NASA To Study Plants To Help Astronauts Grow Food In Space
On a sunny day (Tue, 27 Jun 2006 21:43:27 -0400) it happened John Doe
wrote in : wrote: "Arabidopsis thaliana is a common weed, which we've found in our parking lots," said Mike Eodice, the experiment's project manager at NASA Ames Research Center, At the point of the station's life, they should have gone way beyond groing a weed and should have had regular production of vegetables on the station. It is about time they start this research. This is way overdue and I hope they quickly move from growing useless weeds to growing real fruits/vegetables. AGREED. Heck, growing tomatoes in space should have been done years ago to study the effects of 0G on plants and fruits. Well, they will be making their own mayonaise soon. What about chickens, pigs, ehh the lot? |
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NASA To Study Plants To Help Astronauts Grow Food In Space
station has little to do with science, its a poorly planned poorly run
jobs and diplomatic exercise with a country selling nuclear technology to Iran |
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NASA To Study Plants To Help Astronauts Grow Food In Space
"John Doe" wrote in message ... wrote: "Arabidopsis thaliana is a common weed, which we've found in our parking lots," said Mike Eodice, the experiment's project manager at NASA Ames Research Center, At the point of the station's life, they should have gone way beyond groing a weed and should have had regular production of vegetables on the station. It is about time they start this research. This is way overdue and I hope they quickly move from growing useless weeds to growing real fruits/vegetables. Heck, growing tomatoes in space should have been done years ago to study the effects of 0G on plants and fruits. And BTW, I can just see the headlines in the media: "Astronauts grow weed in space". You vastly overestimate the speed at which zero gravity research moves. Jeff -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919) |
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NASA To Study Plants To Help Astronauts Grow Food In Space
In article .com,
"Bob Haller" wrote: No offense intended but whats new about this? They were spinning plants many years ago, grew lots of different stuff on Mir and possibly skylab. So whats new and different? For that matter, I'm sure I saw kids growing plants under red and blue cellophane in Jr. High science fairs 30 years ago. That's pretty much the classic minimal science project for kids who don't care about science. Oh, but this will be in space, so I'm sure the plants will prefer completely different frequencies of light. |
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Ruth Marlaire June 27, 2006 NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Phone: 650-604-4709 or 604-9000 e-mail: RELEASE: 06-45AR NASA TO STUDY PLANTS TO HELP ASTRONAUTS GROW FOOD IN SPACE Someday, astronauts may grow food efficiently in space and use plants to clean spaceship air, thanks to a two-year experiment scheduled aboard the International Space Station. The next space shuttle mission, STS-121, will carry the Tropi experiment's apparatus into space when the shuttle hurtles into orbit after its July 1 scheduled launch. Scientists will study a weed in the cabbage and mustard family, to see if its roots grow more readily toward red or blue light, according to scientists. Is this type of mission worth risking even one astronaut's life? It might be worth even high risk to human life to voyage to the planet Mars--"to boldly go where no one has gone before." It's not worth any risk to human life to maintain the stupid ISS--"to boldly grow where no weeds have grown before." I would risk my life to walk on Mars in my lifetime. I wouldn't risk my life to grow weeds in the cabbage and mustard family. -- Steven D. Litvintchouk Email: Remove the NOSPAM before replying to me. |
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NASA To Study Plants To Help Astronauts Grow Food In Space
Steven L. wrote:
Is this type of mission worth risking even one astronaut's life? It might be worth even high risk to human life to voyage to the planet Mars--"to boldly go where no one has gone before." It's not worth any risk to human life to maintain the stupid ISS--"to boldly grow where no weeds have grown before." How do you propose we learn to grow things in space, then? Granted, ISS is a bit of a boondoggle, and this is probably not the *best* way to learn how to do this. But we might as well use it while it's there. And if we're going to learn about how to grow plants in space *at all*, *ever*, it will be at the risk of at least one astronaut's life. I would risk my life to walk on Mars in my lifetime. I wouldn't risk my life to grow weeds in the cabbage and mustard family. A "flags and footprints" mission, like the Apollo missions were, would accomplish little in terms of an established presence in space. If we want to go in space to stay and not just do stunts to impress Joe Sixpack and Suzy Bluehair, we need to do some (relatively) mundane things, too -- like figuring out the best way to grow food. We as a race do put our lives at risk doing glorious things, but we *much* more frequently put our lives at risk doing things that are much more humdrum. |
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