Las Cruces Sun News 7/28/2019
ESPAÑOLA - It'll be one giant leap for chile-kind.A hybrid version of a New Mexico chile plant has been selected to be grown in space as part of a NASA experiment.
The chile, from Española, is tentatively scheduled to be launched to the International Space Station for testing in March 2020, the Albuquerque Journal reports.
A NASA group testing how to produce food beyond the Earth's atmosphere and the chile plant was created with input from Jacob Torres — an Española native and NASA researcher.
Torres said the point of sending the chiles into space is to demonstrate how NASA's Advanced Plant Habitat — which recreates environmental needs for plant growth like Co2, humidity and lighting — works not only for leafy greens, but for fruiting crops, as well.
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