{"id":1474706,"date":"2022-05-13T16:45:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T20:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1474706"},"modified":"2022-05-13T16:45:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T20:45:46","slug":"nasa-scientists-grow-plants-in-lunar-soil-for-first-time-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nasa-scientists-grow-plants-in-lunar-soil-for-first-time-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasa scientists grow plants in lunar soil for first time in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnasa-scientists-grow-plants-in-lunar-soil-for-first-time-in-history%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1474706&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2720010\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2720010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">For the first time, scientists have used lunar soil collected by long-ago moonwalkers to grow plants, with results promising enough that NASA and others already are envisioning hothouses on the moon for the next generation of lunar explorers. (Tyler Jones\/UF\/IFAS via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN NEWSROOM<br \/>UPDATED 1:31 PM PT \u2013 Friday, May 13, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>For the first time in NASA history, scientists are able to successfully grow plants in lunar soil collected by Apollo astronauts.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers announced they\u2019ve grown flowering weeds in 12 small containers of soil, which were brought back by astronauts from the Apollo missions of 1969 and 1972.<\/p>\n<p>They saw sprouts after two days, surprising officials who originally were unsure if life could exist in the harsh lunar soil that contained a number of sharp particles and lacked organic material.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe fact that anything grew means that we have a really good starting point,\u201d said Sharmila Bhattacharya, NASA\u2019s program scientist for space biology. \u201cNow the question is how do we optimize and improve.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UF scientists have made history as the first to grow plants in lunar soil, using just a few teaspoons from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NASA<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Apollo?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Apollo<\/a> missions. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UF_IFAS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UF_IFAS<\/a>\u2019 tiny lunar garden will help pave the way for life on the moon. \ud83c\udf15 \ud83c\udf31 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hB3XaMm6jh\">pic.twitter.com\/hB3XaMm6jh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FLORIDA (@UF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UF\/status\/1524776823736856577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The success of this experiment paved the way for NASA\u2019s Artemis program, which aims to create a environment to sustain long-term life on the Moon\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/u-k-paper-the-guardian-claims-doj-spied-on-reporter-says-ig-horowitz-was-probing-leaks-to-media\/\">U.K. Paper \u2018The Guardian\u2019 Claims DOJ Spied On Reporter, Says IG Horowitz Was Probing Leaks To Media<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, scientists have used lunar soil collected by long-ago moonwalkers to grow plants, with results promising enough that NASA and others already are envisioning hothouses on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":764,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}