LUNAR SOIL

Scientists at the University of Florida have successfully grown plants in lunar soil for the first time.

The soil samples taken from the Apollo 11 and later missions were used to sprout thale cress, although the plants were stunted.

This has given NASA scientists hope that plants could be grown in a greenhouse on the moon during future habitation by humans.

Thus begins a decades-long process to work out the details and refine the procedure so that a self-sustaining human presence can be established on the moon when we eventually go back there.

Still that won’t be me, I kind of like it here on Earth.

Dave Fredericks, Toowoomba