Daisies in Space

[cos]

Recently, they made a zinnia bloom in space:
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/first-flower-grown-in-space-stations-veggie-facility

Turns out this wasn't the first flower to bloom aboard the International Space Station - a sunflower bloomed there in 2012:
http://www.space.com/31687-zinnia-not-first-flower-in-space.html

So it wasn't the zinnia, but the sunflower, that was the world's first asternaut!

(Apparently the Russians grew some beans and arabidopsis that flowered in space many years earlier, but no asters as far as I know.)

Comments

[estheruth.livejournal.com]

Kinda weird that they haven't tried Cosmos yet (it aould also be an asternaut).

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

So it wasn't the zinnia, but the sunflower, that was the world's first asternaut!

::rimtap::

[cos]

A coworker who saw this wrote: "If athletes get athlete's foot and astronauts get missiletoe, what do
surveyors get? Square feet."

[topum.livejournal.com]

Sunflowers are the first! Yay!