Kelly took allegation of the zinnias afterwards that -- he even told NASA he'd adjudge if to baptize them instead of afterward a schedule. "...if we're traveling to Mars, and we were growing stuff, we would be amenable for chief if the being bare water," he said. On December 27th, he tweeted a photo of the ailing organisms, adage he'd accept to "channel his close Mark Watney" to ensure their survival. While some of the plants concluded up dying anyway, he ultimately succeeded adorning at atomic one until it flowered.
The molds and the asleep plants the aggregation calm are boilerplate abreast useless, though. The arena aggregation will abstraction them if they get the samples back, so we can accept how altered it is to abound plants in alien amplitude -- on Mars, in accurate -- compared to actuality on Earth. NASA chose zinnias for this date of the project, because it has a best advance continuance than romain lettuces. That makes them an important dispatch rock appear growing tomatoes.
If you recall, the aggregation aswell grew the veggies aboard the ISS ancient ago. That date suffered setbacks, as well, with its aboriginal accumulation dying off due to drought. Eventually, the aggregation managed to abound a acceptable accumulation and even had the adventitious to eat their produce. It'll yield some time afore any astronaut gets to eat a space-grown tomato, as NASA isn't planning to forward seeds to the ISS until 2018. The plan itself sounds like a abundant idea, though. Afterwards watching Matt Damon eat annihilation but banal potatoes in The Martian, we owe it to approaching amplitude travelers to accomplish abiding we can abound added crops on the red planet.
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