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Cosmonaut Maxim Suraev, Expedition 22 Flight Engineer, holds Mizun lettuce plants from the BIO-5 Rasteniya-2 (“Plants-2”) experiment in the Service Module during Expedition 20.
Cosmonaut Maxim Suraev, Expedition 22 Flight Engineer, holds Mizun lettuce plants from the BIO-5 Rasteniya-2 (“Plants-2”) experiment in the Service Module during Expedition 20.

Editor’s Note: There are a myriad of tangible benefits resulting from research and technology demonstrations performed aboard the International Space Station. Throughout the months ahead, we will release stories from the updated “International Space Station Benefits for Humanity” book to highlight the ways in which the station impacts life on Earth. The current Veggie investigation on station provides lighting and nutrient supply for a space garden, which may also supply fresh food for crew members on the orbiting laboratory and on future long-duration missions like the Journey to Mars. This and previous plant growth studies, like the one below, help create technology to enable NASA exploration to the planets beyond while improving plant growth methods on Earth.

Some of the most important tasks in space biology include the creation of reliable and effectively functioning life support systems, and providing sustaining food sources for crew members. For long-term interplanetary spaceflights and planetary bases, the human life support system and food production has to be based on regenerating the living environment from life support products through physical/chemical and biological processes. Greenhouses will most likely be designed for the cultivation of vegetables, primarily greens and herbs. However, in order to implement these plans, plants must grow, develop, and reproduce in spaceflight with cultivation productivity similar to Earth. To address this need, a series of 17 Rasteniya experiments were conducted from 2002-2011 using the Lada greenhouse on the Russian segment of the International Space Station.

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Cosmonaut Maxim Suraev, Expedition 22 Flight Engineer, holds Mizun lettuce plants from the BIO-5 Rasteniya-2 (“Plants-2”) experiment in the Service Module during Expedition 20.

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