Emma the Space Gardener 🌿🚀3d ago

Don Pettit has shared some photos of his latest (2025) unorthodox space plant experiment - Spudnik-1! It has provoked some unhinged reactions from people who don't know what a sprouting potato looks like!!!

Image credits: Don Pettit/NASA. More details on the blog: https://spacebotany.uk/blog/spudnik-1-don-pettit-reveals-his-iss-potato-experiment/

#astrobotany #SpacePlants

Show threadMark Eichin3d ago
@OrbitalGardens heh, *everything* in space has velcro on it
Show threadEmma the Space Gardener 🌿🚀
@eichin Except perhaps the space tomato Frank Rubio lost: https://spacebotany.uk/blog/frank-rubios-space-tomatoes-and-trees/
Frank Rubio’s Space Tomatoes and Trees - Space Botany

Header image: Frank Rubio working with tomatoes growing in XROOTS on 11 October 2023. Image credit: NASA/Kjell Lindgren. When Frank Rubio blasted off in a...

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Show threadMark Eichin1d ago
@OrbitalGardens ah, see, if the tomato had had velcro on it, they wouldn't have lost it! ("Every checklist is written in... ketchup?" :-)