Ready to send plant seeds to space again

Japan's aerospace research and Development Agency announced on May 31 that because the whereabouts of the plant seeds that should have been brought back to earth by Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki aboard the space shuttle are unknown, the U.S space shuttle Discovery scheduled to launch in September will be used to send the plant seeds to the international space station again at the expense of the agency Earlier this month, the aerospace research and Development Agency announced that the whereabouts of seeds of hops and other plants that had been kept for about eight months in the Japanese experimental capsule of the international space station hope were unknown According to libanette, a science and education venture that has developed relevant plans, what is missing is an A4 paper bag containing seeds of nine kinds of plants, including hops, soybeans and tomatoes, weighing about 120g The seeds were sent to the international space station in August last year for experiments to investigate whether the composition and smell of the seeds will change in the space environment There are records that the seeds were loaded on the shuttle returning from the space station, but NASA did not find them on the shuttle returning to the ground Japanese astronaut hiroichi Noguchi, who is on the space station, investigated the storage site of the hope and found no seeds According to the original plan, when the seeds are brought back to the earth, researchers will investigate the impact of micro gravity on the seeds, so as to use them to develop a new taste of beer and sauce, etc they also plan to distribute some seeds to primary and secondary schools across the country, so that students can cultivate plants For the event, the company paid about 3 million yen (about 90 yen) to the aerospace research and development agency, libanest said.