NASA Grows Corn in Space: Microgravity Changes Root and Shoot Growth
According to research archived on Nasa’s Technical Reports Server from the Kennedy Space Centre, dry corn kernels flown on an early 1990s space shuttle mission germinated in orbit without gravity’s directional cues, producing healthy tissue while forcing roots and shoots to grow in tangled, disorganized patterns instead of predictable vertical lines. How Space Shuttle Experiments … Read more