How NASA Biologists Plan to Grow Plants on the Moon

As NASA ramps up the Artemis program, growing plants using water and soil from the moon could become a necessity during longer duration stays there.

When space biologists recently grew plants in actual moon soil, it was a game changer.

WIRED spoke with Sharmila Bhattacharya to find out exactly how they did it.

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