Chinese astronauts plan to grow vegetables on Moon
Beijing: Chinese astronauts may grow fresh vegetables in extraterrestrial bases on Moon or Mars in the future to provide food and oxygen supplies to astronauts, an official said after a successful lab experiment.
Deng Yibing, deputy director of the Beijing-based Chinese Astronaut Research and Training Center, said that the recent experiment focused on a dynamic balanced mechanism of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and water between people and plants in a closed system.
The experiment, the first of its kind in China, is extremely important for the long-term development of the country’s manned space programme, Deng added.
Advance forms of CELSS also involve the breeding of animals for meat and using microbes to recycle wastes.
Scientists from Germany also participated in the experiments.
