Dr. Karl Hasenstein, professor of biology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, is sending a crop of radishes to the International Space Station. The vegetables will travel aboard a craft scheduled to be launched Thursday, Oct. 1, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Hasenstein’s research is helping the space agency research methods for growing vegetables in space to sustain astronauts during long missions. (Photo courtesy Doug Dugas / University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
UL biologist’s vegetable research for NASA headed to space today
Thu, 10/01/2020 - 11:54am
Radishes will soon enter the realm of asteroids, stars and cosmic dust, thanks to University of Louisiana at Lafayette researcher Dr. Karl Hasenstein.
