In 2015, NASA will plant the first moon garden--a tiny greenhouse filled with basil, turnips, and Arabidopsis, a small plant related to cabbage.
“This is fundamental biology,” says Bob Bowman, a research scientist for Lockheed Martin at NASA’s Ames Research Center. “Nobody has grown plants on the moon before. For that matter, no one’s done a live science experiment in deep space before. So we’re on the edge here trying to figure out how to do this.”