Scientists will attempt to grow food in space as part of a
project it is hoped will lead to crops being cultivated on the Moon and Mars.
The 10-year programme being led by researchers in Norway
will see foods such as cherry tomatoes, lettuce and soybeans grown on the
International Space Station (ISS).
Called Time Scale, the project is being run alongside the EU
and the European Space Agency (ESA) to investigate how food plants grow in
space and how the plants can help supply space travellers with food and air in
the future.
Ann-Iren Kittang Jost, research manager at the Centre for
Interdisciplinary Research in Space (CIRIS) at the Norwegian University of
Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, is leading the project.
"I do envision that what we can form the basis for food
cultivation on the Moon and Mars sometime in the future," she told Science
Nordic.
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