Lunaria One, the Australian startup for growing plants on the Moon, will participate in the mission planned for 2025 by the American private space company Intuitive Machines.
Oku.AzAccording to information from the newspaper “The Guardian”.
A capsule filled with seeds and plants developed by Lunaria One will be placed in Intuitive Machines’ lunar module. The module must reach the surface of the Earth’s natural satellite, traveling a distance of 380,000 kilometers.
“The Aleph experiment will demonstrate that plants can withstand the harsh conditions of space, including long-term storage on the launch pad, high pressure during launch, and temperature changes of -130 to 120 degrees,” explained the director. by Lunaria One, Loren Fell.
It is reported that the future mission will determine the conditions in which photosynthetic organisms can live and grow. This information is necessary to obtain food and other resources on space worlds for future human colonization missions of the Moon and Mars.
Scientists also said that space innovations in agriculture might be necessary on Earth, for example to grow food after a natural or man-made disaster.
