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Dec 8, 2023 · The Vegetable Production System, known as Veggie, is a space garden residing on the space station. Veggie’s purpose is to help NASA study plant growth in microgravity, while adding fresh food to the astronauts’ diet and enhancing happiness and well-being on the orbiting laboratory.
The NASA Clean Air Study was a project led by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA) in association with the Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA) in 1989, to research ways to clean the air in sealed environments such as space stations.
Space Biology research helps us understand the fundamentals of plant growth by examining the very building blocks of plant life down to the molecular level: transcriptomics, genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics.
Oct 18, 2023 · To date, NASA has grown a variety of plants, including lettuces, tomatoes, and radishes – and learned a lot about how to successfully do so in the process. Picking the Right Plants. The first step in this research is identifying which plants to test.
Plants not only take in carbon dioxide and return oxygen, but they are exceptionally good at capturing harmful toxins from the air. NASA research has delved into how plants do this, and how to potentially use plants to provide clean air on long-duration space missions.
At NASA Space Biology, we conduct functional and plant biological experiments to better understand the basics of physiology—how plants grow and acclimate—in conditions of microgravity and spaceflight.
The Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) is the largest, fully automated plant growth research facility that is used to conduct plant bioscience research on the International Space Station (ISS).
