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sending people to the Moon and Mars

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requires understanding how to provide

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nutrition for astronauts who may be away

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from Earth for extended periods of time

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one solution is growing food in space

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which can be challenging scientists will

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send three types of leafy greens and a

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new way to handle seeds in space to the

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International Space Station launching

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from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in

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Virginia on north of grummons 13th

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resupply mission the veg oh three series

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of experiments will send a new crop

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amara mustard to the orbiting laboratory

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red romaine lettuce and extra Dorf bok

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choy which astronauts have grown and

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eaten in space will also return to the

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station researchers at NASA's Kennedy

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Space Center planted the POC joy and

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Ammar seeds in containers called plant

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pillows but for red romaine lettuce they

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inserted the seeds into a new type of

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seed handling material called seed film

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this water-soluble dissolving the film

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is the same material as a breath

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freshener strip it will allow the crew

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to plant the seeds into pillows

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themselves something that has never been

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done in orbit before this could allow

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astronauts to pick and choose what crops

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they want to grow from a collection of

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seeds on the space station as we venture

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farther into space giving astronauts the

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ability to store handle and plant a

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variety of fresh crops on-demand will

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allow them to supplement their diets

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with fresh nutritious produce seed film

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also may permit astronauts to grow

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microgreens in the future these are

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small vegetables harvested between one

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to two weeks after they're planted that

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are packed with nutrients and flavor

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the three plants for veg o3 will grow

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for 28 to 30 days then astronauts will

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eat half and return the other half to

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Earth for analysis this experiment will

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do more than provide the crew with a

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fresh neck its science being done on the

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world's only crude multinational

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research laboratory for almost 20 years

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it's been the place where humans have

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learned how to live and work in space

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making research breakthroughs that

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aren't possible here on earth it's those

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breakthroughs that will allow people to

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pursue deep-space exploration

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and improve life here on earth

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