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Letter: Space farming

Published 21 January 2015

From John Prewer

Michael Slezak writes that plants grown in space will need the soils we bring with us (20/27 December 2014, p 6). But why? In the Mars mission study programme in the early 1980s, NASA established that soil-less aeroponics was the best way to grow crops in space – mainly because it made large weight savings possible.
Bapchild, Kent, UK

Issue no. 3005 published 24 January 2015

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