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WASHINGTON, April 7 – RIA Novosti . The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) will grow Chinese cabbage in orbit, the seeds of the plant sent to the station on Friday, NASA said.
“New in vegetable cultivation program in space will be small Chinese cabbage, called Tokyo Beck ( Tokyo Bekana) “, – said a leading researcher of growing vegetables program Officer in space NASA Gioia Massa (Gioia Massa)
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According to her, with a cargo to the ISS and to arrive more seeds of red lettuce, whose first harvest crew gathered in August last year.
Growing vegetables on the ISS is part of a NASA program to prepare for the longer and more distant space flights, as well as to enrich the diet of the crew in the future. As noted by Weight, in the selection of NASA’s culture is guided, first of all, the ability to use to grow vegetables in their raw form, as well as their nutritional value.
According to the scientist, the seed of Chinese cabbage last week, similar to those that go to ISS, were planted in the garden of the White House first lady Michelle Obama’s America.
The American cargo ship will go to the International Space Station on Friday, April 8th. He will deliver into orbit more than 3 tons of cargo, including materials for scientific experiments.
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