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I know that. This is it.
Okay. Track
are human caused climate change.
Climate change is bad.
Many people don't know that.
NASA has a lot to do with the food on your plate.
We use data from space to monitor agriculture and track food security.
So when farmers are better prepared
for a water shortage in advance, they can make more sustainable decisions.
Look at much.
That's why today we'll be learning what it takes to grow food.
200 miles above our heads on board the International Space Station.
Hello. My name is Jocelyn Argueta
I'm your host, Kathleen Gaeta
And this is Snack
Time with NASA so we can send a rover to Mars.
But now the question is, can we make a tasty dip?
And this is my dog, Buoy
And we both really love cheese.
I will eat a space potato in my lifetime.
I promise you that.
It's my first time, and I'm not sure
I'm not sure how we're going to taste.
This is so bad.
oh, my God.
I'm here to help explain the connection
between space and plate is Matt Rodell, NASA Hydrosphere Scientist.
Hey, Matt, how's it going?
Hey, Kathleen, how are you? Thanks for having me.
I'm good. Thanks for being here.
Shut your little door.
I can't hear
So delicious.
Here we go.
Thanks so much for joining us today
and for sharing all this really great information.
And thanks, everyone, for watching, happy snacking!
And here to help explain how that happens
is Matt Romeyn, Project Scientist at the Kennedy Space Center.
Matt, thank you so much for being here. How's it going?
Well, it's going good.
Glad to be here, Kathleen. Yeah.
So you sent me a list of vegetables that you work with, and I'm wondering
how you go about choosing which foods to grow up in space.
We have to do a lot of crops screening
We were able to screen these crops and test them at our growth chamber at Kennedy
Space Center.
They are able to replicate the environmental conditions
of International Space Station, except for microgravity.