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A vegetable garden in orbit. It's Italian

It will allow optimal nutrition in long-lasting space missions

Enea (Italian Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development), the "Federico II" University of Naples and the "Sapienza" University of Rome are the entities that participated in the realization of the prototype of a micro-vegetable garden to grow fresh vegetables for future space exploration, six thousand km from the Earth.Enea -AVIONEWS notes it- is a public research body...

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Rome, Italy, 04/17/2020 14:08
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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