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Is it possible to grow potatoes on Mars?

Post author:Jeff Browe
Post published:March 24, 2021
Post category:cultivation space
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A fictional botanist-turned-astronaut is trapped on Mars in the 2015 hit film "The Martian," prompting him to "research the s—-" out of his precarious situation.Matt Damon's character, Mark Watney, lives…

NASA Remembers Former Johnson Director Jefferson Howell July 3, 2025
July 3, 2025 Jefferson Davis Howell, Jr., former director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, died July 2, in Bee Cave, Texas. He was 85 years old. Howell was a champion of the construction of the International Space Station, working on a deadline to complete the orbiting lab by 2004. He oversaw four space […]
NASA Mission Monitoring Air Quality from Space Extended July 3, 2025
Since launching in 2023, NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution mission, or TEMPO, has been measuring the quality of the air we breathe from 22,000 miles above the ground. June 19 marked the successful completion of TEMPO’s 20-month-long initial prime mission, and based on the quality of measurements to date, the mission has been extended […]