Above the International Space Station (ISS), there are many astronauts and astronauts ranging from plants, bacteria and fungi. It is human responsibility to ensure that all of these are in good health, so when astronaut Mike Hopkins mentioned a sick resident, he did the ISS, the equivalent of rushing into surgery, and performed a life-saving transplant.The patient.
On Earth, plants are in a fragile state when plant transplants are at risk. It never been attempted in space before – and both Hopkins and NASA scientists working on the agency’s Vegetable Production System (VEGI) have surprised and delighted scientists.
According to NASA, transplant recipients are doing well “surviving and growing with transplantation -” Red Russian “kale and ‘extra dwarf’ Pak choi- donor kale and Pak choi,” the statement said.
sIn fact, transplanted plants probably could not survive on Earth. Now, they are growing even better than the amount of unusual material they contain on our home planet: microgravity.
This is where the horror movies started before you got worried, where people got involved in something they had nothing to do with, and the corridors of the space station will soon resonate with Hopkins’ vain demands of “feed me, Seymour,” because of the harvest today. The astronauts will eat some of it, and the rest will sent back to Earth.
Although human inhabitants get plenty of nutritious packaged foods at ISS, the vitamins in a packaged diet can be broken down, reducing their nutritional value as much as they are in storage. The idea of long-term space missions and future settlers on other planets becoming self-sufficient and expanding their own space can be important.
Veggie tests have been on the ISS since 2018 and have grown lettuce, mustard and even radishes, growing on clay-based substrates and fertilized little “pillows”. However, when Hopkins examined the veggies in mid-January, he noticed that a few red romaine and dragon lettuce seeds were sprouting slowly behind many other plants. So slowly, in reality, it looked like they would not catch up at harvest time.
Thus, under the direction of the Earth’s Veggie team, Hopkins experimented by replacing extra sprouts from a growing tree with a fighting tree pillow, and it worked. “The success of this small accident transplant is going to be quite significant; “This has opened up many areas for future development,” said Matt Roman, a top scientist on NASA’s VGEG-03I project, who was frustrated with the survival of plants in space.
“We are accustomed to using microgravity against us in the fluid / physics department, making it very difficult for plants growing in space. Therefore, to make an exception like this, where microgravity seems to be helpful and plants are growing better than the earth … it is surprising.
So how does microgravity help plants? “Liquids behave very differently in space than soil. The behavior of the liquid seems to have helped the plants in this situation, “said Gioia Massa, a botanist at the Veggie program.
Now all we have to do is wait for the samples to bring it back to Earth so that we can get our hands on the Triffids-esque scene someday.
