Lunar Oasis: Space Agriculture Era Begins

WASHINGTON, although there is no oxygen in lunar atmosphere,  plants can now grow there. Paragon Space Development Corp has develop a portable green house that can be used to grow plants in space.

The shape of the green house look like a garden light with only 46 centimeters in height. The glass tube is fastened with triangular shaped aluminum base. There is enough nutrition to grow Brassica seed, a kind of caisim or yellow-flower kailan.

The prototype that is designed to  support space agriculture is called Lunar Oasis. The first experiment to place the Lunar Oasis on the moon surface is planned at 2012, will be launched using spaceship produced by Odyssey Moon Ltd. that is still under development.

According to Jane Poynter, the president of Paragon, although living on Moon or Mars may still be far in the future, but preparing an efficient life support system should be searched from now since it can take long time  to get the suitable result.

NASA still has the mission to send the human back to the moon at 2020 and 2030 for Mars. If plants can be grown in aerospace then the astronaut need not to eat pasta and pills everyday. Fresh vegetables can be served anytime.

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