{"id":21086,"date":"2016-01-22T05:32:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T13:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/how-do-astronauts-grow-plants-in-space"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:04:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:04:28","slug":"how-do-astronauts-grow-plants-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/how-do-astronauts-grow-plants-in-space","title":{"rendered":"How do astronauts grow plants in space?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y9aR2-7sOjg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In August 2015, astronauts on the International Space Station <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/475471\/astronauts-are-about-to-eat-the-first-food-grown-in-space\/\" target=\"_blank\">ate<\/a> the first vegetables grown in space; earlier this month, they coaxed the first zinnias to <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/596901\/growing-the-first-flower-ever-to-bloom-in-space-was-not-easy\/\" target=\"_blank\">bloom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though space agricultural technology hasn\u2019t quite reached the level of that seen in <em>The Martian<\/em>, overcoming the challenges presented by zero-gravity to grow plants was a feat in itself.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday (Jan. 20), NASA released a video describing the \u201chistoric vegetable moment\u201d and explaining the growing process more in-depth. You can watch it here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/599928\/how-do-astronauts-grow-plants-in-space\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2015, astronauts on the International Space Station ate the first vegetables grown in space; earlier this month, they coaxed the first zinnias to bloom. Though space agricultural technology hasn\u2019t quite reached the level of that seen in The Martian, overcoming the challenges presented by zero-gravity to grow plants was a feat in itself. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21086","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63162,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21086\/revisions\/63162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}