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Jun 27 2006, Irani

Humans can even aspire to grow crops and manage a garden in space! Can we grow food in microgravity? To satiate this intrusiveness, the space shuttle Discovery scheduled to launch July 1, will carry the research of Miami University professor John Kiss....

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