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Agriculture in space!?

Islam Mohamed Abdul-Ghani Mohamed, Third Level,

Political Science
The world is still witnessing many surprises about science and not exposed to space in large quantities From natural sunlight,
its development. Science has not become a mere tool for unlike agriculture on the ground, so the use of artificial
understanding and awareness only, but rather surpasses what lighting is being considered. Is that sufficient for the purpose? .
might be going on in the minds. When talking about Another challenge that poses a threat to space is pollutants,
agriculture soon comes to the mind of the individual which are and since the conditions surrounding the plant will change,
rural places whose land is characterized by fertility in order to what is the possibility of pollutants or dangerous organisms
enable us to produce more quality crops. But when someone from space that may affect the growth and quality of plants to
tells you that there is an implantation in space, this makes you be suitable for humans? And the area that is not large in
certain. Either this person is without a mind, meaning that he is spacecraft represents a challenge, as the rooms and rooms are
not aware of what he is saying, or he is making a joke and does narrow in the vehicles, so how do those rooms accommodate
not mean what he said. the plants that are supposed to grow in them? .
But in that article I really mean the existence of agriculture With all these challenges, some scientists try to find
in space, and this means the presence of plants that grow in solutions to them alongside NASA Space Agency, which plays
space, whether they are inside spacecraft or on the surfaces of an important role in that, as NASA scientists believe in the
celestial bodies, as scientists have been working to achieve this idea of cultivation in space because it will help them to
achieve their desire to explore space, and in light of the time-
for a while and this is no longer strange for some of them who consuming trips in space exploration. And with a number of
see that transporting individuals to space and producing Food many experiments to cultivate plants and crops in the same
will be inevitable in the future, and since space does not have conditions of space to know the extent of their validity and
the ingredients for agriculture from the presence of soil, some quality for humans, and with a number of experiments, the first
scientists have begun to think about collecting quantities of experiment was successful in 2015 and the first salad of
soil, shipping it and moving it to space or agriculture without vegetables grown in the same conditions of space was eaten
soil. This is not the only challenge that scientists face in and tasted, although the quantity was very small, but It was an
cultivating in space, gravity is also one of the challenges, so indication of the beginning of success, I see that it is a matter
how can there be cultivation in an environment with little or no of time, with the success of the first experiment, the chances of
gravity in the first place, but some argue that this does not success increased because of the existence of space cultivation,
represent a danger to agriculture, but rather the most dangerous but not in its traditional form as we know it, but I wonder what
is that plants are science can do in the coming days! .
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