On board the ISS for the first time blossomed flower grown in space – RBC

In the course of biological experiments on board the International Space Station was first blossomed flower. This was his Twitter said NASA astronaut Scott Kelly.

«first flower bloomed in space!” – Wrote an astronaut, post a photo of a flower aster-zinnia. “Yes, there are other life forms in the cosmos” – signed another photo astronaut.

According to NASA, the flowers were planted last year at the International Space Station astronaut Chell Lindgren, but after his return to Earth care of plants took over Kelly.

The experiments on the cultivation of vegetables and plants in space is held in a special unit Veggie. Last year, the astronauts received the first seedlings of lettuce, which have been successfully grown, frozen and shipped to Earth. After analyzing NASA has approved an experiment in which ISS crew ate space crop.

In December 2015, because of the fungus develop on the leaves of two aster, zinnia wilted and died, but the two plants were saved.