NASA CONTRACTOR SIGNS DEAL TO BUILD GREENHOUSES IN EARTH’S ORBIT
“COVID and the climate change really opened our eyes to the fragility of food security in both the developing and the developed world.”
Space Farming
Private space company Nanoracks recently signed a deal with investors in the United Arab Emirates to build orbital greenhouses and grow extremely-resilient crops out in space.
It sounds like an unusual idea, to say the least. But Nanoracks CEO Jeffrey Manber told Space.com that he believes any crops capable of surviving the extremes of life in space could go a long way toward solving looming food security crises here on Earth — and pointed to scientific evidence support that hypothesis.
Read more at the originally published location here: https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-contractor-build-greenhouse-earth-orbit
