{"id":57643,"date":"2015-08-19T00:09:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T07:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=57643"},"modified":"2015-08-19T00:09:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T07:09:38","slug":"astronaut-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/57643","title":{"rendered":"Space Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tGardens in buckets,<\/p>\n<p>Gardens in lace,<\/p>\n<p>Gardens on rooftops \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Gardens in space?<\/p>\n<p>Captain Kirk never dared to dream such succulence.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, it&#8217;s not science fiction.<\/p>\n<p>On August 10, astronauts at the International Space Station ate fresh food grown in space for the very first time. In a collapsible and expandable Veggie Unit dubbed Lada, the astronaut gardeners grew a real, live crop of red romaine lettuce out there among the stars, and the taste test was documented in live-stream fashion:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c1Gxn_nfgWA\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>It turns out that growing veggies in space is not as easy as it is on Earth, what with the soil-free and sun-starved spaceship environs. Even so, astronaut Scott Kelly sowed a smattering of lettuce seeds on a fabricated &#8220;seed pillow&#8221; in early July, illuminated them with multicolored LED lights, and harvested leaves a month later.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, it&#8217;s a little avant-garde in the realm of gardening, but it sure beats the Jetson&#8217;s Meal-o-Matic fare.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57648\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57648\" class=\"wp-image-57648\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/15754414125_2147e39495_z1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"349\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-57648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Mike Licht via Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Driven by more than mere curiosity (and serious cravings for fresh salad), NASA is experimenting with space-grown food in hopes that it might aid astronauts in extended expeditions through the galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>Watch out, Mars, here we come.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57649\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57649\" class=\"wp-image-57649\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/399px-Girl__Rocket_4962243877.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"540\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-57649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Cmichel67 via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>P.S. If you&#8217;re &#8220;spacing&#8221; out and still wondering about the &#8220;gardens in lace&#8221; mentioned in line two, come back for tomorrow&#8217;s post!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gardens in buckets, Gardens in lace, Gardens on rooftops \u2026 Gardens in space? Captain Kirk never dared to dream such succulence. Nevertheless, it&#8217;s not science fiction. On August 10, astronauts at the International Space Station ate fresh food grown in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/57643\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/57643\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift_for_gab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}