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Did you know that since April 2014, NASA scientists have been testing growing plants and vegetables on the Space Station? You see, a veggie system can keep astronauts and Mars colonists alive by providing the food they need. The Vegetable Production System (Veggie) is a real, non-science-fiction, portable unit capable of growing plants in space, providing a crew with a source of fresh, palatable, nutritious...

  While most people understand that becoming an Astronaut isn't the simplest career to break into, they probably don't understand the rigorous mental and physical conditioning required to prepare an individual's mind and body for space. Beyond the physical strain placed on a person's body during the actual flight to space, the more time in space, the more strain on the body. NASA has...

  NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is responsible for science and technology related to air and space. NASA engineers design and build the technology used in every field for NASA, including electronics, avionics, software and rocketry. One out of every 1,000 patents issued in the U.S. has gone to NASA project scientists. Thousands of scientific studies have been published based on results of...