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SpaceX Launches Tomato Seeds, Other Supplies to Space Station
– “Liftoff!”
– “Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship”
– “Dragon separation confirmed; autonomous docking to the Space Station on Sunday, November 27 at ~7:30 a.m. ET”
You can watch the whole launch on SpaceX’s web site. But CNN explains that SpaceX “has launched more than two dozen resupply missions to the space station over the past decade as part of a multibillion-dollar deal with NASA. This launch comes amid SpaceX’s busiest year to date, with more than 50 operations so far, including two astronaut missions.”
And yet this one carries something unique. (And it’s not just the Thanksgiving-themed treats and solar arrays to boost the space station’s power…)
Nutrients are a key component of maintaining good health in space. But fresh produce is in short supply on the space station compared with the prepackaged meals astronauts eat during their six-month stays in low-Earth orbit. “It is fairly important to our exploration goals at NASA to be able to sustain the crew with not only nutrition but also to look at various types of plants as sources for nutrients that we would be hard-pressed to sustain on the long trips between distant destinations like Mars and so forth,” said Kirt Costello, chief scientist at NASA’s International Space Station Program and a deputy manager of the ISS Research Integration Office.
Astronauts have grown and tasted different types of lettuce, radishes and chiles on the International Space Station. Now, the crew members can add some dwarf tomatoes — specifically, Red Robin tomatoes — to their list of space-grown salad ingredients. The experiment is part of an effort to provide continuous fresh food production in space…. The space tomatoes will be grown inside small bags called plant pillows installed in the Vegetable Production System, known as the Veggie growth chamber, on the space station. The astronauts will frequently water and nurture the plants….
The hardware is still in development for larger crop production on the space station and eventually other planets, but scientists are already planning what plants might grow best on the moon and Mars. Earlier this year, a team successfully grew plants in lunar soil that included samples collected during the Apollo missions. “Tomatoes are going to be a great crop for the moon,” Massa said. “They’re very nutritious, very delicious, and we think the astronauts will be really excited to grow them there.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Uber Eats now delivers office and school supplies
You might not have to brave crowded stores to get your child’s back-to-school gear. Uber Eats now offers deliveries of office and school supplies from roughly 900 Office Depot and OfficeMax stores across the US. If you need a flurry of binders and pencils for your little one’s classes, you can have them delivered during your lunch break.
Not surprisingly, you’ll avoid the delivery fee and receive a 5 percent discount if you’re an Uber One subscriber who spends at least $15 on a purchase. Uber didn’t say if other office supply shops would be available, but did note this was the “first.”
It may seem odd to order school material through the same app that handles your takeout meals. However, Uber has gradually expanded its deliveries to cover goods ranging from groceries to pharmaceuticals — like DoorDash, Eats is becoming more of a general delivery service. In theory, you’ll pick Uber Eats over rivals like Amazon Prime Now whenever you need something shipped in minutes, not hours or days.