CALIFORNIA, iNews.id – Gardening will play an important role in future long-term space missions. Gardening offers astronauts a source of healthy fresh green vegetables and other plant foods while away from home.
NASA has planted plants on the International Space Station (ISS). The project proved to be fruitful. Some astronauts have been able to eat the harvested crops.
Meanwhile, scientists have learned quite a lot about how to effectively cultivate green vegetables in a microgravity environment. Despite this, there is still a fair amount of research to be done on this issue, and not all of it has to do with food production.
NASA says it is currently studying whether gardening in space will have a beneficial effect on astronauts’ mental health, particularly whether it will help with the unique kind of isolation that accompanies life in outer space.
The research was conducted by project scientist Dr. Kennedy Space Center. Gioia Massa and her team of experts, who received the project from NASA’s Human Research Program. The effort involved a survey given to astronauts growing plants on the ISS, which involved questions that would help explain the impact this activity had on astronauts’ mood.
Editor: Dini Listiyani
