Space chefs already have a new ingredient for the best galactic gazpacho.
The North American space agency has so many open fronts that it is almost impossible to cover them all, even if someone specialized in it. That is why often we tend to pay more attention to the most striking news and show you really spectacular information, such as the collection of wallpapers that we have made with images from the James Webb Space Telescope. Now it is the turn of the tomatoes and his farm miles away from the earth.
Tomatoes, the International Space Station, and Space Chefs
Recently, thanks to NASA’s publication on its website, we have been able to learn how the ISS crew is carrying out a experimentwith a product that we already told you about at the time and that was sent in a SpaceX ship, which has a lot to do with gardening, or agriculture if you want to see it that way, and which is a new step to be able to achieve new ways to eat off Earth.
Planting tomatoes in space is a reality thanks to NASA. Unsplash
has been the expedition 68 the one that is giving shape to this experimentwhich will look for grow tomatoes in the season itself, in order to test fertilization techniques, improve microbial food safety, check nutritional values or find out if the flavor is similar to that of a tomato that has grown on our planet. In the future missions from NASA, the food crops would have very beneficial propertiesas they clarify in the article, given that would improve morale of the crew and would reduce reliance on space cargo missions.
In addition to this experiment, currently the veteran astronaut Koichi Wakatabelonging to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, is also doing research work. research with biotech experiment Neural Integration Systemthrough which microbes are introduced into an incubator, which generates its artificial gravity property, and where it is being studying diseases related to neoromuscular impairment such as Parkinson’s. For the moment, we will see if those tomatoes grow healthy and rich and we will share with you the following experiments carried out on the ISS.