At the ISS, the world`s first cosmic flower
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A real miracle happened on board the ISS - for the first time in history, on board the space shuttle the flower of zinnia blossomed.
The flower was planted a year ago by Chelle Lindgren, who is currently on the ground, and could not see this exciting process live. The flower was taken care of by another member of the crew - Scott Kelly, who also published a photo on Twitter. He also noted that "he feels himself the main hero of the fantastic film" Martian ", who grew potatoes on the Red Planet." He carefully removed the mold from the flowers, but 2 of the flowers of 4 still perished, and the buds appeared on the remaining ones a week ago and one day they blossomed. Withered flowers were sent to Earth for study and will be able to answer many questions of growing plants in space.
Plant cultivation sedative acts on the crew, but the main reason for such activities is providing cosmonauts with plant food for long flights, and also in the planned in the near future irrevocable flight to Mars of a group of volunteers.
Recall that this NASA program has been in operation since 2013, and all plants are grown in special greenhouses Veggie.
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