Radish Experiment Ready for Launch
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| Description | As we prepare to send humans back to the Moon and on to Mars, the need for astronauts to grow fresh food in space is greater than ever. Plant Habitat-02, or PH-02, is an experiment launching on Northrop Grumman’s 14th resupply mission to the International Space Station. Lifting off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, PH-02 will study the growth of radishes inside the space station’s Advanced Plant Habitat – an enclosed growth chamber that lets us study how plants behave in a microgravity environment. The way the chamber works requires little maintenance from the crew. It uses LED lights, a porous clay material and a controlled release of fertilizer to deliver water, nutrients and oxygen to the plant’s roots. Inside the chamber are cameras and more than 180 sensors, providing a constant stream of contact to researchers at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Things like water distribution, atmosphere content, moisture levels and temperatures are all automated. Th |
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| Date | 2020-09-28 |
| Source | images.nasa.gov |