NASA Shares Picture Of Flower Grown In Space Station's Veggie Facility, Internet Reacts
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NASA is looking at ways to provide astronauts with nutrients in a long-lasting, easily absorbed form-freshly grown fruits and vegetables.
Future long-range trips, like one to Mars, would require humans to cultivate some of their own food, so understanding how plants grow in space is essential. That is why NASA started planting flower crops in space in 2015, when NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren activated the Veggie system and its rooting "pillows" containing zinnia seeds.
Today, NASA released a photo of the zinnia plant that thrived on the International Space Station.
Sharing the image on social media platforms, the space agency wrote, "This zinnia was grown in orbit as part of the veggie facility aboard the International Space Station. Scientists have been studying plants in space since the 1970s, but this particular experiment was started on the ISS in 2015 by NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren."
