Can orchids live in space?

Kip,

They seem to do OK in the space just outside my front door.... but I have
wondered if they would survive in outer space. Do you ever wonder that
also?

Mick

Hello Kip,

I know that NASA has on several space flights done experiments with orchids.
I can't tell you what they done exactly. I'll have to dive into some books
to get they details.

Rob Zuiderwijk



"Kip Knudson" wrote in message
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Can orchids live in space?

Hi, Kip,

Past Nasa experiments reveal that orchids have been sent into space.
See: http://spacebio.net/modules/pb_resource/reed2.html

.. . . Pam
Everything Orchid Management System
http://www.pe.net/~profpam/page3.html

P. S. Perhaps some day they will send the glow-in the dark orchid.

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Kip Knudson wrote:

Can orchids live in space?

"profpam" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Hi, Kip,

Past Nasa experiments reveal that orchids have been sent into space.
See: http://spacebio.net/modules/pb_resource/reed2.html

. . . Pam
Everything Orchid Management System
http://www.pe.net/~profpam/page3.html

P. S. Perhaps some day they will send the glow-in the dark orchid.

Wow! Then we could try spotting it with a good telescope...;-)
--
Reka
http://www.rolbox.it/hukari/index.html
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
--Winston Churchill

Mick Fournier wrote:

Kip,

They seem to do OK in the space just outside my front door.... but I have
wondered if they would survive in outer space. Do you ever wonder that
also?

Mick

I'd seriously doubt it. The vacuum would lyse the cells
before the plant even thought about the lack of oxygen and
carbon dioxide. However, within a pressurised compartment
containing sufficient air, such as those found in shuttles
and space stations, in outer space....

Andrew

of course they can live in outer space.
How do you think they arrived here
and were able to put us all under their
mind control they're aliens