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Onboard Artemis I: Studying Plant Seeds in Space
21.08.2023 - 11:44 / theunconventionalgardener.com / Emma Doughty
Dr Federica Brandizzi of Michigan State University is the Principal Investigator for the Life Beyond Earth: Effect of Spaceflight on Seeds with Improved Nutritional Value study, an experiment headed for the Moon on NASA’s Artemis I mission. In this short video, she explains why she’s sending plant seeds into space.
We have to think about having plants that can produce more of the nutrients in a limited space and with limited resources.
Our technology equips plants with a higher content of amino acids that are essential for the human diet. We are going to send seeds of a model plant that is called Arabidopsis thaliana, and we would like to see how, when these seeds come back from space, how these seeds react to space.
We are attempting to see how we can improve plant productivity using plants that we have modified to have more resources to withstand spaceflight.
By 2050, our population would have exploded. We need to make plants that are stronger and more yielding in terms of biomass productivity, to make the tools for mankind to survive in a space that is not becoming bigger, but where the human population is becoming more numerous.
This, for me, will be my third mission to space. And I can tell you that for the other two missions, when we were doing the countdown of the rocket going out to space, I cried because it was so exciting being part of history because each rocket they send to space is part of history.
But Artemis is mind-blowing because it allows us to achieve so many milestones.
I’m Federica Brandizzi and I am Artemis.
Dr Brandizzi is sending seeds on NASA’s Artemis I mission to the Moon to understand better how to grow food during space travel.
“This is really about understanding how we can establish and sustain life
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