Monday 18 April 2016

The space seeds have arrived!

This morning we received a package with our space seeds in! The experiment is being run by the Royal Horticultural Society's campaign for school gardening and the UK Space Agency.
The seeds have been in space for six months and were returned to Earth in March by the former commander of the space station, Scott Kelly.
The aim is to learn more about the effects of weightlessness and radiation on seeds in order to develop plant varieties that can be grown on long space missions. We received two packets of rocket seeds. One was red and one was blue. Tomorrow we will sew the 200 seeds and then we will spend the next 35 days recording measurements and sending our data to the UK and European space agency!


 
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  1. Mistry-Dyer19 April 2016 at 01:51

    Any Triffids??!!

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  2. staff.pow22 April 2016 at 08:09

    No triffids! But you never know what they might grow in to?!

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  3. Mistry-Dyer24 April 2016 at 10:45

    I'm still looking for 'The Day of the Triffids' book, perhaps to give some more inspiration....

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  4. staff.pow26 April 2016 at 08:31

    I look forward to reading it!

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  5. Mistry-Dyer26 April 2016 at 11:58

    It is a scary book, you may not want the seeds from space to grow anymore once you've read it...

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