And you'll never guess what it's growing first.Orbital Greenhouse<\/p>\n
A private space company called Redwire Corporation has announced plans for what it's calling the \"first-ever commercially owned greenhouse\" in space.<\/p>\n
Redwire is hoping to install the facility on the International Space Station no earlier than spring 2023. The startup was awarded a contract with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, which manages US lab operations on board the ISS.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Despite the lofty promises, we have yet to even see any renders of Redwire's greenhouse, meaning the ambitious project will have a lot to prove.<\/p>\n
The company does say it's building on \"decades of flight heritage and innovation of world-class technologies,\" according to its website,<\/p>\n
Redwire has also managed plant investigations for NASA's Advanced Plant Habitat, a small, fully automated growth chamber on board the ISS, since 2018.<\/p>\n
\"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 a statement.<\/p>\n
\"Growing full crops in space will be critical to future space exploration missions as plants provide food, oxygen and water reclamation,\" he added.<\/p>\n
During the greenhouse's inaugural flight, Washington-based cannabis company Dewey Scientific will grow \"industrial hemp\" for a gene study.<\/p>\n
Redwire is also collaborating with Tupperware Brands yes, that Tupperware to develop a nutrient delivery system.<\/p>\n
The company is also hoping to help NASA on its Artemis missions to the Moon \"and beyond,\" according to Reed.<\/p>\n
More on growing stuff in space: NASA Contractor Signs Deal to Build Greenhouses in Earth's Orbit<\/p>\n
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