Target Sponsors CASIS ISS Cotton Challenge
CASIS Announces Cotton Sustainability Challenge
“The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) today announced a cotton sustainability challenge, sponsored by Target Corporation, where researchers and innovators will have the ability to propose solutions to improve crop production on Earth by sending their concepts to the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory. The challenge will leverage a broad range of disciplines to find breakthrough solutions that can be implemented affordably and benefit the cotton production community.”
Does anyone have a sense of how an agricultural research project could be framed on ISS? What could be the benefit of micro gravity, I wonder, other than determining how to grow cotton in micro G.
got me ! maybe they’re just looking into any wild-a$$ idea to try and use the ISS. Maybe something can come from an unlikely source ? If you don’t look under Every rock how can you be sure there isn’t a gem hidden there ?