And you'll never guess what it's growing first.
And you'll never guess what it's growing first.plans for what it's calling the "first-ever commercially owned greenhouse" in space.
The greenhouse is meant to serve as a testing bed for growing sustenance in a microgravity environment, which will be important as humans start to embark on longer trips through deep space. "Redwire Greenhouse will expand opportunities for scientific discovery to improve crop production on Earth and enable critical research for crop production in space to benefit future long-duration human spaceflight," said Dave Reed, Redwire's greenhouse project manager, in"Growing full crops in space will be critical to future space exploration missions as plants provide food, oxygen and water reclamation," he added.
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