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MS. STILSON:  Well, Joshua from Jacksonville asks can you grow seeds in space?

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MS. HIRE:  Yes, we can. We can grow seeds in space, and we have done so. We've had experiments going back to the MIR missions,

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where we actually had plant growth. And we have plans for many more experiments with plants and growth in space.

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And the thing that's unique there is, without the effect of gravity, they grow in a much different way.

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And we like to study that, because eventually, again, with colonization, eventually,

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it would be great to be able to grow some of our own plants in space.

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