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Topic: Sales of seeds flown aboard the space station?
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Fezman92 Member Posts: 1031 From: New Jersey, USA Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 09-09-2011 10:46 AM
Every once in a while I see seeds that have are claimed to have flown on the ISS. Is there any truth to those? |
garymilgrom Member Posts: 1966 From: Atlanta, GA Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 09-09-2011 12:21 PM
I know of two types of seeds flown in space - Tomato seeds on the LDEF and Cinammon Basil seeds on STS-118. I don't know if any of these spent any time on the ISS. The seeds are generally distributed to children along with control seeds that have not left Earth. The kids can grow both control and space flown plants to see the differences caused by exposure to space (if any). Both types of seed packs appear regularly on eBay. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-09-2011 12:44 PM
There is also Tomatosphere, an educational outreach project by the Canadian Space Agency and others. At least a couple of their annual seeds campaigns have included samples flown on the space station. |
mikej Member Posts: 481 From: Germantown, WI USA Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 09-09-2011 07:23 PM
The Alabama Aerospace Teachers' Association arranged to have some apple seeds flown aboard Endeavour to Mir. I own one of these seeds.A tree grown from one of these seeds is planted near the US Space & Rocket Center. |
cosmos-walter Member Posts: 691 From: Salzburg, Austria Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 09-10-2011 04:20 PM
Sunflowers grown from seeds which were flown in space usually get bigger than unflown from the same flower. However, they are more damageable. I am aware of cosmonauts taking such seeds into ISS for a school or for other children. |
MarylandSpace Member Posts: 1336 From: Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 09-10-2011 05:32 PM
Weren't mustard seeds and/or poppy seeds flown sometime during manned space flights?Does someone remember? |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-10-2011 05:42 PM
Ed White flew mustard seeds on Gemini 4. His son later sold prints (titled "The Ten Million Dollar View") that had one seed attached to each. The prints were a limited edition of 1,500. |
spaceman Member Posts: 1104 From: Walsall, West Midlands, UK Registered: Dec 2002
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posted 01-12-2013 06:35 PM
A bag of 250,000 pansy seeds was placed in the Kvant-2 EVA airlock of the MIR space station during Helen Sharman's flight way back in 1991. Seeing a video interview with her reminded me. They were distributed to schools in the U.K. I never managed to obtain any however. There was probably an accompanying lesson plan/pack too. |
Rick Mulheirn Member Posts: 4167 From: England Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 01-13-2013 04:29 AM
I have some of the Helen Sharman flown seeds; a packet of flown and a packet of control seeds. From memory they came with a single piece of card outlining the project and prospective classroom uses; nothing elaborate. |