Flower Grown In International Space Station Veggie Facility NASA Shares Picture

Future scientific missions are not limited to just going to the Moon or Mars. Space agencies plan to create temporary bases on other planets outside the Earth, where astronauts can complete their research. Astronauts will need fresh food while staying on other planets, especially Mars. To achieve this goal, scientists have been growing things in space for many years. American space agency NASA started growing flowers in space in the year 2015. Its results have started becoming visible. NASA has released a picture of the zinnia plant.

The space agency shared the picture on its social media platform and wrote that zinnia has been grown in the veggie facility of the International Space Station. Scientists have been studying plants in space since the 1970s. Although this experiment was started in the year 2015. NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren grew zinnia on the International Space Station.

On this success, NASA wrote that our space garden is not just for show. This explains how plants grow in orbit. This experiment will help us learn how to grow crops outside Earth. This will be useful in missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond.

NASA astronauts have also successfully grown many other things in space. These include lettuce, tomato and chili pepper. Many more plants will be seen growing on the ISS in the future. This picture has excited those interested in science. People are praising this experiment of NASA a lot.

One user wrote, Incredible and beautiful. Another user commented that two special things together, space and flowers. Thanks NASA.