{"id":141282,"date":"2022-06-28T14:25:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/nasa-astronauts-harvest-delicious-space-vegetables-sans-soil"},"modified":"2022-06-28T14:25:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:25:59","slug":"nasa-astronauts-harvest-delicious-space-vegetables-sans-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/nasa-astronauts-harvest-delicious-space-vegetables-sans-soil","title":{"rendered":"NASA Astronauts Harvest Delicious Space Vegetables, Sans Soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-astronauts-harvest-delicious-space-vegetables-sans-soil2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earthly space travelers have been trying to perfect orbital botany for a while now. Stable, sustainable off world agricultural practices are needed to make longer term exploration missions possible, and though the International Space Station (ISS) has seen a few <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/nasa-astronauts-feast-space-grown-vegetables\" class=\"\">successful low-orbit gardening<\/a> endeavors, all have used some sort of soil or soil-replacing growth media.<\/p>\n<p>Now, thanks to NASA Flight Engineer Jessica Watkins, that could be starting to change. According to a NASA blog <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/spacestation\/2022\/06\/24\/crew-studies-aging-in-space-harvests-edible-plants-before-cygnus-reboost\/\" class=\"\">published last week<\/a>, Watkins has begun to harvest radishes and mizuna greens aboard the ISS \u2014 grown without any soil whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Growing <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/russia-veggies-space-station-greenhouse\" class=\"\">any edible plants<\/a> in space is always exciting, but using dirt-like growth materials presents potential resource, mess, and sanitation problems. And that\u2019s why Watkins\u2019 triumphant soilless crop could be a thrilling step towards a new age of interstellar discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earthly space travelers have been trying to perfect orbital botany for a while now. Stable, sustainable off world agricultural practices are needed to make longer term exploration missions possible, and though the International Space Station (ISS) has seen a few successful low-orbit gardening endeavors, all have used some sort of soil or soil-replacing growth media. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}