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  • NASA's growing flowers on the ISS for the first time

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    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    11.19.2015

    Following upon its initial successes with lettuce back in August, NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station are attempting to coerce a colony of zinnias to flower for the first time. The effort is part of the larger Veggie plant growth system which is studying the effects of microgravity on plant life.