Dear FFA Chapter Advisor, Agriscience has become a major part of many local agricultural education instructional programs. As you know the application of science and technology has provided the basis for the abundant food supply we enjoy here on earth.
Space is a new frontier which offers today s students exciting challenges and opportunities.
One of those challenges is to provide a reliable food supply for long term space exploration. A portion of the scientific work of the newly developed International Space Station is to solve this problem. While seeds have been in space before, this is the first time in history that seeds will be grown on the International Space Station and supported for an entire lifecycle until harvest. The resulting seeds will be the first generation of space seeds that will have germinated in space and are preserved and studied in detail. Scientists do not know what the effects will be on the viability of seeds created in micro-gravity.