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JAXA
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CNSA
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NASA
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Detailed explanation-1: -NASA astronaut harvests first radish crop ever on International Space Station.
Detailed explanation-2: -The plant experiment, called Plant Habitat-02 (PH-02), is the first time NASA has grown radishes on the orbiting laboratory in the APH. NASA selected radishes because they are well understood by scientists and reach maturity in just 27 days.
Detailed explanation-3: -To date, Veggie has successfully grown a variety of plants, including three types of lettuce, Chinese cabbage, mizuna mustard, red Russian kale and zinnia flowers.
Detailed explanation-4: -NASA astronaut Kate Rubins harvested fresh radishes grown in space, opening new doors for producing food in microgravity to sustain future longer-term missions to the moon and Mars. The radishes were grown in the Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) aboard the International Space Station.
Detailed explanation-5: -In a partnership between NASA and the University of Wisconsin, seed potatoes were first tested in space in 1995 aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.