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Ep. 380 - Learning to Grow Plants on the Moon

In Defense of Plants Podcast

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The Lunar Soil Samples

Lunar soil samples were sealed hermetically while in space. They were put into an air stream trailer for two, two and a half weeks to make sure that the astronauts weren't sick themselves. A lunar dust was sprinkled on animals, on on worms, on mice, on on alge on bacteria, on everything. The leading botanist at the time there was a fellow by the name of charles walkinshaw a. He grew radishes and all sorts of plants, and did what a plant pathologist would do: rubbed them with lunar soil. But he never got the chance to actually use the lunar regulat as soil and try to grow plants in it.

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