Talk about pricy veggies...
From dutch newssite and translated with Googletranslate.
China wants vegetables of Mars and Moon
BEIJING - Chinese astronauts to the moon and on Mars grow their own vegetables, while staying there so they have access to fresh produce.
An experiment in the capital Beijing is successful, Chinese media reported Tuesday. The vegetables were grown in special ecological life support system.
Four vegetables were grown in an'' ecological life support system'', a cabin of 300 cubic meters. The system relies on plants and algae. Which vegetables are involved, is not reported.
The participants in the experiment were'' fresh vegetables for meals harvest'' said researcher Deng Yibing against the Xinhua news agency. He says it's the first experiment of its kind in China.
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No great surprise; any long-duration (and I mean long-duration mission) is going to need to make consumables during the mission; it is simply impossible to pack or preposition all the supplies needed for a multi-year mission. Mars missions (which are about 900 days, IIRC) are pushing the very edge of what can be carried without needing a ludicrously large transfer vehicle that is mostly storage space.
Talk about pricy veggies...
From dutch newssite and translated with Googletranslate.
China wants vegetables of Mars and Moon
BEIJING - Chinese astronauts to the moon and on Mars grow their own vegetables, while staying there so they have access to fresh produce.
An experiment in the capital Beijing is successful, Chinese media reported Tuesday. The vegetables were grown in special ecological life support system.
Four vegetables were grown in an'' ecological life support system'', a cabin of 300 cubic meters. The system relies on plants and algae. Which vegetables are involved, is not reported.
The participants in the experiment were'' fresh vegetables for meals harvest'' said researcher Deng Yibing against the Xinhua news agency. He says it's the first experiment of its kind in China.
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Not particular new. Similar research has been done around the world for many years now. This is just the Chinese cathing up.
Not particular new. Similar research has been done around the world for many years now. This is just the Chinese cathing up.
Only if the veggies are ones grown by previous research
As an amusing aside, last growing season I was given some seeds from China (the packet was entirely written in Chinese script), I planted them, brought a few in to my co-workers (also Chinese) and they went crazy. Sadly they did not know an English translation for the name.
My point being, there is new research to be done, even in the been their done that of veggies.
When knowledgeable people can not even translate the common name of a commonly used veggie we have but scratched the surface.
btw. High on my list for repeats in vegi-garden 2013 are White Alpine Strawberries, Cossack Pineapple, and Fioletovyi Kruglyi.
