date:Dec 03, 2013
, and will also provide cameras, sensors, and electronics in order to relay information about how the plants fare back to Earth.
Nasas plan is to develop a very simple sealed growth chamber that can support germination over a five to-ten day period in a spacecraft on the Moon. The containers will attempt to grow turnip, basil and Arabidopsis. Nasas plan is to find some answers when this self-contained habitat, which will have a mass of about one kg and would be a payload on a commercial lunar