• Question: What is the first flower to bloom in space?

    Asked by The LB Bros to Anthony, Cathal, Hannah, Jade, Sallie on 6 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Sallie Baxendale

      Sallie Baxendale answered on 6 Mar 2017:

      a zinnia I think, on the space station last year but there may be billions of other flowers blooming in a galaxy far far away, that we don’t know about

    • Photo: Jade Owen

      Jade Owen answered on 9 Mar 2017:

      In 1982, the crew of the space station grew some Arabidopsis, these were the first plants to flower and produce seeds in space.
      (Arabidopsis (rockcress) are small flowering plants related to cabbage and mustard).

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