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Space farming

Space farming refers to the cultivation of crops for food and other materials in space or on off-Earth celestial objects – equivalent to agriculture on Moon.

Farming on celestial bodies, such as the Moon or Mars, shares many similarities with farming on a space station or space colony. However, farming on celestial bodies may lack the complexity of microgravity, depending on the size of the body. Each environment would have differences in the availability of inputs to the space agriculture process: inorganic material needed for plant growth, soil media, insolation, relative availability of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and oxygen, and so forth.

The "" at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah contains a greenhouse designed to emulate some of the challenges resulting from farming on Mars.

GreenHab

The experiment and the European Modular Cultivation System[15] on the International Space Station is used to grow small amounts of fresh food.

Lada

In 2013, NASA funded research to develop a .[16]

3D food printer

The NASA Vegetable Production System, "Veggie," is a deployable unit which aims to produce salad-type crops aboard the International Space Station.

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The 2019 lunar lander carries the Lunar Micro Ecosystem,[18] a 3 kg (6.6 lb) sealed "biosphere" cylinder 18 cm long and 16 cm in diameter with seeds and insect eggs to test whether plants and insects could hatch and grow together in synergy.

Chang'e 4

The future lunar lander will carry a small "biosphere" cylinder called Lunar Plant Growth Experiment (LPX), where NASA will attempt to germinate and grow several plant types.[19][20]

ALINA

The EDEN-ISS project was a 4 year project in Antarctica at Neumayer Station III designed to showcase plant cultivation system for future tests on-board ISS and a Future Exploration Greenhouse (FEG) for planetary habitats. The project has since been extended.[22]

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Astrobotany

Biosphere2

Bioastronautics

Generation ship

Human mission to Mars

Microgravity

Plants in space

Scientific research on the International Space Station

Vegetable Production System

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European Space Agency

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The Kitchen Sisters

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International Space Station: A First For Space Farming

Greenhouses for Mars

Sunlight on Mars: Is there enough light on mars to grow tomatoes?

Award-winning Mars garden

in support of Earth-orbital, lunar, or Martian plant growth facilities

Plant biology at low atmospheric pressures