He imagines industrial activity in space, releasing earth on earth. Hollywood directors made films in orbit. And botanists traveling there and back to check their space gardens. She and her colleagues are currently looking for financing to support their concepts has become spatial reality. The model, made by the London design company Millameter, is only used for displaying. The real version, if it ever flies, would also be uninhabited by people, at least initially. In this case, I am asking why her team was desperately invented aesthetically pleasant project. This is “something that can regain the imagination of the audience,” he explains.
But is it practical? Lean, containing patches that protrude from the space garden, look very breakable. Ekblaw claims that these telescopic appendages will usually be withdrawn. “Most of the time, the structure looks a bit more like a berry” without these spindle arms, “he adds. After closing, the patches will protect the plants in the middle, behind their thick windows, from light – but the structure can open to let the light reach the plants. This is a mechanically controlled alternative to the daily earth cycle.
In the end, Ekblaw suggests that astronauts can sometimes stop at Space Garden to gather samples from it. He says that the data about open source tracking environmental conditions on board and the growth rate of plant growth would also increase our understanding of how to effectively grow food in space.
When I show Garden Space Garden to Dixon, he says that he looks like “for” and immediately specifies that in the near future there may not be the need to grow food in space: “We can arm ourselves with enough stocks to manage it. He says that he does not see the” large scale “of gardens that are able, but says that this psychological benefit is that this is the benefit of astron. “Good idea”
Alistair Griffiths, director of science in Great Britain of Royal Horticultural Society, was involved in the project that sent Rocket Seeds. ” with the British astronaut Tim Peake in 2015. About the idea of the space garden, taking into account its complicated shape, says that there may be some practical challenges during the transport of such a project, but praises the general approach: “I think it should be attractive and related to nature.”
Gardens here on earth are extremely diverse. They contain plants and design functions representing the personalities of people behind them. Space gardens cannot vary. Given the chance, astronauts with green fingers will certainly bring their preferences.
Dixon, for example, has long been experimented with barley seeds, sending a lot to orbit and back to earth, with a lot of his research supported by the distillery of Glenlivet whiskey in Scotland. “This is my list of things to do. I intend to grow barley on the moon,” he says.
Another option comes to my mind for Griffiths. “I would grow a strawberry plant,” he says after a while, taking into account many possibilities. “But a strawberry plant, which also has glowing red petals.” Fragaria X Ananassa is a variety she chooses. He claims that if it goes to space, it must be extremely nice and edible.
However, someone will have to come up with cosmic dairy products if someone wants a fresh cream with space straws.