Media Group: Space Food 4/2009

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Tomatoes in Space
Name of Image Tomatoes in Space
Date of Image 2004-04-15
Full Description BioServe researcher Dr. Yi Li first flew plant experiments on board STS-63. Li discovered that exposure to microgravity increased a particular hormone concentration in plants. Since that time, Li has been able to manipulate this phenomenon and grow fruits, such as tomatoes, that overproduce the hormone, and these plants bear larger seedless fruit in the absence of pollination.
Potatoes in Space
Name of Image Potatoes in Space
Date of Image 2004-04-15
Full Description Astroculture is a suite of technologies used to produce and maintain a closed controlled environment for plant growth. The two most recent missions supported growth of potato, dwarf wheat, and mustard plants and provided scientists with the first opportunity to conduct true plant research in space. Light emitting diodes have particular usefulness for plant growth lighting because they emit a much smaller amount of radiant heat than do conventional lighting sources and because they have potential of directing a higher percentage of the emitted light onto plants surfaces. Furthermore, the high output LED's have emissions in the 600-700 nm waveband, which is of highest efficiency for photosynthesis by plants.
Examination of plants in lun …
Title Examination of plants in lunar (germ free) soil in Plant Laboratory
Description Dr. Charles Walkenshaw, Manned Spacecraft Center botanist, examines sorghum and tobacco plants in lunar (germ free) soil in the Plant Laboratory of the Lunar Receiving Laboratory. The soil was brought back from the Moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts.
Date Taken 1969-10-08
Radish plant exposed to luna …
Title Radish plant exposed to lunar material collected on the Apollo 12 mission
Description The leaves of this radish plant were rubbed with lunar material colleted on the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission in experiments conducted in the Manned Spacecraft Center's Lunar Receiving Laboratory. The plant was exposed to the material 30 days before this photograph was made. Evidently no ill effects resulted from contact with the lunar soil.
Date Taken 1970-01-13
Ames Research Center views o …
Title Ames Research Center views of Oats, Slash-Pine and Mung bean seedlings STS-3
Description Young oat seedlings are shown in a ground laboratory after being flown into space aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-3 in March of 1982. All plants were part of the experimental Plant Growth Unit. They appear to have grown to look similar to the control seedlings on earth. A few small roots can be seen growing upward from the soil (33915), Young slash-pine seedlings are shown upon returning from the STS-3 mission (33916), Mung bean seedlings are shown after their return from space aboard the STS-3 (37917).
Date Taken 1982-07-20
Food package used in emergen …
Title Food package used in emergency supplied by Mercury astronauts
Description A foil wrapped food package used by Mercury astronauts as part of their emergency survival supplies.
Date Taken 1962-10-23
General Description International Space Station Imagery
General Description International Space Station Imagery
General Description International Space Station Imagery
John Glenn enters his Friend …
Title John Glenn enters his Friendship 7 capsule
Full Description Project Mercury astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr. enters his Mercury ?Friendship 7? capsule before launch on February 20, 1962. At 9:47 a.m. (EST), his Atlas launch vehicle lifted him into orbit for his flight lasting 4 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds. Onboard Friendship 7, Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, and the third American to fly in space. A faulty signal indicating a problem with the heat shield forced NASA mission controllers to cut the flight to only three orbits, but Glenn returned to Earth safely.
Date 02/20/1967
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
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