article_snippet.sent: In the weightless environment of the space station, researchers will monitor how plants grow in a particular direction without a noticeable gravitational pull.
article_snippet.sent: Nasa astronaut Karen Nyberg is pictured harvesting plants from a previous Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) investigation of thale cress during Expedition 37 in 2013 .
article_snippet.sent: researchers at the Japanese space agency (Jaxa) are currently testing a greenhouse system, which uses recycled urine to manufacture fertiliser.
article_snippet.sent: researchers at the Japanese space agency (Jaxa) hope to build a greenhouse in Antarctica to test the first space garden in 2016.
article_snippet.sent: a greenhouse system, which uses recycled urine to manufacture fertiliser is being developed at the German Aerospace Center in Bremen, and is called Eden (Evolution and Design of Environmentally-closed Nutrition sources).
article_snippet.sent: Funded by Esa, the greenhouses will contain combined life-support systems which use recycled urine to manufacture fertiliser, helping to grow vegetables for a lunar and Mars environment.
article_snippet.sent: Scientists from Virginia are also hoping to use meteorite soil to grow everything from asparagus to potatoes.
article_snippet.sent: Small dishes will hold seedlings, and astronauts on the station will watch how Small dishes are able to grow inside the Japanese Kibo module.
article_snippet.sent: In the Japanese Kibo module, the plants will be placed in both the micro gravity
article_snippet.sent: These culture dishes hold seedlings and the growing medium for the Plant Gravity Sensing investigation, which were used during astronaut training at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Tsukuba Space Center in March 2014 .
highlights_snippet.sent: Japanese-led experiment will see how plants grow on the ISS .
  