As the author himself once said, âIf I had to choose one of my books to live and not the others, I would never choose pedigree.â. Belgium's Master of Noir Nathaniel Rich December 3, 2010. For once, the focus was on Russert's work, not his pedigree.
Space farming. Space farming refers to the cultivation of crops for food and other materials in space or on off-Earth celestial objects â equivalent to agriculture on Earth. Farming on the Moon or Mars share many similarities with farming on a space station or space colony, but would lack the complexity of microgravity found in the latter.
Growing plants in space may provide a psychological benefit to human spaceflight crews. The first organisms in space were specially developed strains of seeds launched to 134 km on July 9, 1946 on a U.S. launched V-2 rocket. These samples were not recovered.The first seeds launched into space and successfully recovered were maize seeds launched on July 30, 1946.ed Romaine lettuce was grown in space on Expedition 40 which were harvested when mature, frozen and tested back on Earth. Expedition 44 members became the first astronauts to eat plants grown in space on August 10, 2015 when their crop of Red Romaine was harvested.