Can you grow plants in moon rock? Dallas ISD students are trying to find out

Can you grow plants in moon rock? Dallas ISD students are trying to find out

They sit two and two, all eyes on the big screen, just like mission control. But their mission isn’t to get man into outer space, but to help figure out if we can grow food once we get there.  “I would like to be a meteorologist and astronomer, so it touches bases with everything they want to do,” said Celease Shelley. Shelley was one of a select group of high school and college students chosen to play with something few of us have ever seen. “I…

NASA Grows Lettuce for Space Station Experiment

Inside the Space Systems Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, significant strides are being made in the field of space agriculture. On April 24, 2025, a dedicated member of the payload implementation team carefully harvested ‘Outredgeous’ romaine lettuce from the Advanced Plant Habitat ground unit. This event marked a crucial phase of […]

NASA Harvests Lettuce for Space Station Study

Inside a laboratory in the Space Systems Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a payload implementation team member harvests ‘Outredgeous’ romaine lettuce growing in the Advanced Plant Habitat ground unit on Thursday, April 24, 2025. The harvest is part of the ground control work supporting Plant Habitat-07, which launched to the International Space Station aboard NASA’s SpaceX 31st commercial resupply services mission. …