Students at the University of Tennessee are helping put agriculture in space!

If our future includes living in space, we need to grow food on board a ship with no gravity!

Students at UT’s Herbert College of Agriculture recently developed an experiment that will be conducted on the International Space Station.

Charles Denney has more on the otherworldly seeds and the would-be scientists who are sending them skyward.

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