{"id":27944,"date":"2016-07-18T03:46:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T10:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/5-reasons-to-farm-in-low-earth-orbit"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:15:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:15:51","slug":"5-reasons-to-farm-in-low-earth-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/5-reasons-to-farm-in-low-earth-orbit","title":{"rendered":"5 Reasons To \u2018Farm\u2019 In Low-Earth Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/5-reasons-to-farm-in-low-earth-orbit.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Large Earth-orbiting greenhouses will someday likely be as commonplace as peanut acreage on Georgia\u2019s coastal plains.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Low-Earth orbit (LEO) would hardly appear to be the best place to take up farming. But both NASA and the burgeoning commercial space industry are already planning for a time when in addition to on-orbit space hotels and new research stations, there will also be Earth-orbiting greenhouses. Such structures will provide a horn of plenty for growing numbers of LEO residents and astronauts venturing beyond Earth orbit to the Moon, Mars or even the Main Asteroid Belt.<\/p>\n<p>The initial case for LEO agriculture would be to feed a growing population of space-dwellers \u2014 either using a greenhouse that remained permanently attached to the LEO habitat, or a greenhouse that was free-flying and uncrewed.<\/p>\n<p>Here are five reasons why Earth-orbiting space greenhouses make sense.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2016\/07\/18\/5-reasons-to-farm-in-low-earth-orbit\/#4cb17144b275\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2016\/07\/18\/5-reaso...b17144b275<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large Earth-orbiting greenhouses will someday likely be as commonplace as peanut acreage on Georgia\u2019s coastal plains. Low-Earth orbit (LEO) would hardly appear to be the best place to take up farming. But both NASA and the burgeoning commercial space industry are already planning for a time when in addition to on-orbit space hotels and new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,15,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-habitats","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27944","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\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50143,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27944\/revisions\/50143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}