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June 19, 2012 04:37 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/l8raVGcQIzc/gardening-on-the-moon.html
Gardening on the Moon
Frycook posted this fascinating video from the Apollo era on the BoingBoing Submitterator. The basic gist: Back in the day, NASA scientists tried exposing various crops—corn, lettuce, tobacco ... you know, the essentials—to moon dust. The plants weren't grown in the dust, exactly. Instead, it was scattered in their pots or rubbed on some of [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/l8raVGcQIzc/gardening-on-the-moon.html
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