{"id":145241,"date":"2022-08-31T04:17:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T09:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/plans-announced-for-full-greenhouse-on-international-space-station"},"modified":"2022-08-31T04:17:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T09:17:16","slug":"plans-announced-for-full-greenhouse-on-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/plans-announced-for-full-greenhouse-on-international-space-station","title":{"rendered":"Plans Announced for Full Greenhouse on International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plans-announced-for-full-greenhouse-on-international-space-station2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A private space company called Redwire Corporation <a href=\"https:\/\/redwirespace.com\/newsroom\/redwire-to-develop-first-commercial-space-greenhouse-to-improve-crop-science-on-earth-and-support-future-space-exploration-missions\/?rdws=k.tf&rdwj=61201\" class=\"\">has announced<\/a> plans for what it\u2019s calling the \u201cfirst-ever commercially owned greenhouse\u201d in space.<\/p>\n<p>Redwire is hoping to install the facility on the International Space Station no earlier than spring 2023. The startup was awarded a contract with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, which manages US lab operations on board the ISS.<\/p>\n<p>The greenhouse is meant to serve as a testing bed for growing sustenance in a microgravity environment, which will be important as humans start to embark on longer trips through deep space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A private space company called Redwire Corporation has announced plans for what it\u2019s calling the \u201cfirst-ever commercially owned greenhouse\u201d in space. Redwire is hoping to install the facility on the International Space Station no earlier than spring 2023. The startup was awarded a contract with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145241","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}