{"id":776609,"date":"2024-02-11T10:12:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T15:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=776609"},"modified":"2024-02-11T10:12:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T15:12:55","slug":"why-it-takes-so-much-work-to-grow-plants-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=776609","title":{"rendered":"Why it takes so much work to grow plants in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Astronaut Christina Koch looking at the greenhouse on the International Space Station<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>The following is an extract from our monthly Launchpad newsletter, in which resident space expert Leah Crane journeys through the solar system and beyond. You can sign up for Launchpad for free\u00a0here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the least pleasant thing about places other than Earth is that they don\u2019t have trees (as far as we know). But scientists around the world are working on ways to grow plants in space and on other worlds, so someday that might\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2415499-why-it-takes-so-much-work-to-grow-plants-in-space\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronaut Christina Koch looking at the greenhouse on the International Space Station NASA The following is an extract from our monthly Launchpad newsletter, in which resident space expert Leah Crane&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":776610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/776610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}