News, Private Firm Plans To Plant Flowers On The Moon.

[JD59]

A US space engineering and technology development firm has developed a new device that may one day offer astronauts the ability to grow fresh vegetables in space.

Tuscon, Arizona-based Paragon Space Development Corporation has designed a miniature sealed greenhouse that will be the first step toward growing flowers, and eventually vegetables, on the Moon.

Private Firm Plans To Plant Flowers On The Moon - Space News - redOrbit

[Brian.Pearson]

Originally Posted by John1960

A US space engineering and technology development firm has developed a new device that may one day offer astronauts the ability to grow fresh vegetables in space.

Tuscon, Arizona-based Paragon Space Development Corporation has designed a miniature sealed greenhouse that will be the first step toward growing flowers, and eventually vegetables, on the Moon.

Private Firm Plans To Plant Flowers On The Moon - Space News - redOrbit

Moon dust could be hazardous to that program.