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Black Women, Solar Flares, Study Retraction

Episode: Black Women, Solar Flares, Study Retraction

  • Jan 15, 2021 9:00 pm
  • 16:13 mins

While NASA is working on sending humans back to the moon and then onto Mars in the next decade, Gioia Massa is working to make sure the astronauts who go on those long space missions have fresh produce in their diet. Massa is a plant scientist at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center leading the project that’s growing lettuce on the International Space Station. (Originally aired Mar 31, 2020).