UF Researchers Study How To Grow Food on the Moon

The University of Florida is helping NASA build a permanent moon colony. In 2025, as NASA plans to fly astronauts around the moon, UF is already growing plants in moon soil and it could pay off in Florida and beyond. 

NASA has a plan to send astronauts back to the moon and develop a permanent human colony on it. To survive, they’ll need water to drink, air to breathe, and food to eat. The discovery of ice beneath the moon’s surface takes care of the need for water and oxygen. But when it comes to food, growing it in lunar soil is especially difficult – but it can be done.

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