Sprigs in space: Exploring how to grow vegetables in zero gravity
Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scott Kelly, one of three astronauts who ate space salad on board the International Space Station on Monday, said it “tastes good, kinda like arugula”. open image in gallery International Space Station crew of Scott Kelly of the U.S. and Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka of Russia walk after donning space suits at the Baikonur cosmodrome. open image in gallery The Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral Growing Underground occupies tunnels that were excavated as 1940s bomb shelters, under the streets of Clapham in South London. “Using this method, if we can build plant factories all over the world, we can support the food production to feed the entire world’s population,” Shigeharu Shimamura, a plant physiologist and Mirai chief executive, told National Geographic last month.
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