NASA launches project for the cultivation of the plant space

The astronauts will be able to board the International Space Station to get new ways to grow food where will launch the space agency and Aviation Administration (NASA) project vegetable production system (Fiji) within the capsule, "SpaceX Dragon" expected to take-off to the station this evening.

According to the website of a US Virg on technical matters, it will be planted lettuce leaf inside a private room (he describes as like Bahadjrat that appeared in the famous science fiction film Star Trek) in prototypes of pillows Aviation, which will help the plant to withstand weightlessness.

Says NASA Lighting "El DE" red and blue and green will help to preserve the vegetables, adding that the size of the plant chamber itself can be stretched up to display 29.2 centimeters and a depth of 36.8 cm, which would make them, according to NASA, "the largest plant development compartment in space to date."

He was scheduled to be launched project "Fiji" late last year, but was delayed to ensure that all the security measures taken into account.

NASA hopes to use the room later to the development of various types of vegetables, even used for recreational parks. It can also be used more ambitious, such as providing food for the ordinary person on the ground projects, according to the site with Virg.

US space agency official Web location and confirmed that the launch date of the capsule, "SpaceX Dragon" will be according to the previous schedule, the day Monday at 16:58, according to the timing of the eastern United States, or about 9:58 pm according to the international time, and that of al-Qaeda "Komlex 40 "Cape Canaveral air station, Florida.

It is noteworthy that NASA studied yesterday the possibility of postponing the launch of the capsule after a malfunction in a foreign computers ISS, which it described as Paljda, where he asked the six astronauts who are in the station ready for functioning space mission to repair the fault.