On the ISS the first flower bloomed – BBC

17.01.2016, 07:41

On board the International Space Station was first blossomed flower zinnias, a message with a photo posted on his Twitter NASA astronaut Scott Kelly.

«Yes, there are other life forms in space”, – joked the astronaut under another photo grown in weightlessness plants .

The report NASA says that Kelly took over the duties of space gardening and caring for plants, which are grown in the project Veggie.

Yet to last August the astronauts on board the ISS try grown in the same Roman salad.

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