University Place

NASA's Space Vegetables

Special | 58m 49s  | Video has closed captioning.

Simon Gilroy, Professor, Department of Botany, UW-Madison, explores whether plants and microbes could provide food during a long spaceflight or in a colony on Mars. Gilroy discusses how a lack of gravity affects plants and humans.

Aired: 12/10/13

Rating: TV-G

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