When
it comes to growing plants in space, the Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics is the place to
go. Now, that experience
can come to a classroom near you in the form of a plant growth chamber developed by this NASA
Commercial Space Center
as an educational product. Fisher Science Education division of the Fisher Scientific Company is
marketing the ASTROPONICS?product
and related products in its 1999/2000 catalog. ASTROPONICS?provides students with
hands-on experience in growing plants
in an enclosed chamber that provides artificial
lighting, water and nutrients to the plant without opening the chamber. With this, the basic principles of
conducting plant experiments
in space can be simulated in the classroom.
Astroponics