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Off-world crop production can benefit life here on the Homeworld. We are working on that with our ExoLab missions. Our 10th mission is currently on the ISS looking at legumes for protein and vitamins like thiamine. https://magnitude.io/exolab-10


No offense, but how? It just seems way more economical to grow plants in the environment they were evolved for.


Seems it would be useful to quantify what that environment specifically is, maybe find some ways to improve it such that the plants are hardier or have better yields.




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