UW Space Place Guest Presentation
Spacefaring Vegetables: Why Does NASA Launch so Much Lettuce? by Simon Gilroy, UW-Madison Botany
Event Details
Date
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Time
7-8 p.m.
Location
Space Place, 2300 S. Park St.
Description
Plants and microbes keep us alive on Earth; they feed us and they purify our air and water. Could they do the same for a long duration spaceflight or a colony on Mars? But how does a lack of gravity in space affect plants, microbes and humans? Prof. Gilroy will try to answer what happens to biology when it is in spaceflight and whether down always needs to be down and 1x gravity is always good.
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