Monday, 18 January 2016

A flower has bloomed in the zero gravity of space for the first time ever

A flower has bloomed in the zero gravity of space for the first time ever

US astronaut Scott Kelly announced the historic news that a zinnia plant had flowered on the International Space Station (ISS) on his Twitter account, along with a photograph of an orange, 13-petalled flower. Other plants, such as lettuce and wheat, have been grown in space but never a flower that has bloomed.

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