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For the first time, mankind has managed to grow a full-fledged flower for the borders of our planet. Awesome information shared with World Community Scott Joseph Kelly – Astronaut american national space agency working in present at the International Space Station.
Specialists aboard the orbital station, such as It’s known that today they have access to the Internet, therefore such news is published extremely quickly. “As you can see, in there are other forms of life in space, ”Kelly wrote in social network “Twitter”, attaching to your message three photos of an amazing plant.
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The images show yellowish-orange astranium. ISS astronauts have been experimenting for over thirteen months for growing in zero gravity various plants, and only now for the first time they managed to get a flower to blossom. According to American, this is a truly historic event.
The plant was planted on the International Space Station in last year another NASA astronaut – Chell Norwood Lindgren. After he left the ISS and returned to Earth, taking care of Scott Joseph Kelly took astronomy. The specialist even reported his leadership, that he will decide when to water the flower, instead of fulfilling a graph compiled by earth scientists. When the aster bloomed, Kelly instantly notified this to users World Wide Web.
Recall that last summer at the orbital station was grown lettuce. Astronauts who began to use it in food, reported that the product has excellent taste. Specialists froze part of the crop and sent for study to The earth.
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There are a lot of such experiments on the ISS – all of them are part of NASA’s program to provide astronauts with fresh vitamins. Almost all food for the crew is delivered ready from the planet, however, every gram of such a cargo flies world space powers a pretty penny. It is believed that in the foreseeable future astronauts will be able to grow all plant foods for themselves. Such technologies will become indispensable when humanity finally, it will be ready to colonize Mars and other planets.
On the International Space Station, plants are grown in special containers with high quality earth soil. Astronauts use dead parts of plants and their own feces as fertilizer. Substitute for sunlight light emitting diodes.
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