Space station experiment to probe plant disease risks for future moon and Mars missions
As NASA and its partners prepare for longer human missions beyond Earth, University of Florida researchers are investigating a challenge that could affect astronauts' ability to grow fresh food in space: plant disease.
University of Florida researchers are investigating plant disease, a challenge that could impact the ability of astronauts to grow fresh food during long-duration human missions beyond Earth, according to Phys.org.
Separately, NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk completed a 7-hour-and-11-minute spacewalk on Thursday, Oct. 29, to install and deploy the second-to-last upgraded solar array for the International Space Station. Space.com reports the extravehicular activity was the 100th U.S. spacewalk from the station and marked the first spacewalk by a Canadian astronaut since April 2019.
The rolled-up solar array assembly was delivered to the station earlier this month inside a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule.
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