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Food and future: it is time to the crop for the space lettuce

Rome, Italy - The NASA's astronaut Shane Kimbrough used a new procedure of harvest for "cosmic greenhouse"

The Italian Space Agency (ASI) website reported it signed by Ilaria Marciano: six plants of the romaine lettuce are growing at the same time on board of the ISS (International Space Station), as part of the VEG-03 experiment created to explore the possibility to develop plantations in controlled locations for long duration missions. The NASA (US space agency) astronaut Shane Kimbrough on board of...

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Rome, Italy, 12/07/2016 11:36
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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