Time-lapse of NASA growing peppers aboard the International Space Station for Plant Habitat-04

NASA grew chili peppers aboard the International Space Station in the Advanced Plant Habitat for 137 days in 2021 in the Plant Habitat-04 (PH-4) experiment. PH-04 used the NuMex ‘Española Improved’ pepper, a hybrid developed by New Mexico State University. NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough initiated the experiment on July 12, 2021. Expedition 66 flight engineer Mark Vande Hei performed the first harvest on Oct. 29, 2021 and made the second and final harvest on Nov. 26, 2021. Astronauts ate some of the peppers harvested and packaged samples for analysis. Those samples returned to Earth on April 25, 2022, along with the first mission with an entirely private crew to the space station, Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1).

To learn more about the experiment visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/content/plant-habitat-04

Видео Time-lapse of NASA growing peppers aboard the International Space Station for Plant Habitat-04 канала NASA's Kennedy Space Center