Redwire Corporation, a private space company, has announced plans for a greenhouse in space.
Redwire wants to put the facility on the International Space Station in the spring of 2023. The center for the advancement of science in space manages US lab operations in space.
The greenhouse is meant to be used as a testing bed for growing food in a microgravity environment.
We haven't seen any renders of Redwire's greenhouse, meaning the project will have a lot to prove.
According to its website, the company says it is building on decades of flight heritage and innovation of world-class technologies.
NASA's Advanced Plant Habitat, a small, fully automated growth chamber on the International Space Station, has been managed by Redwire.
"Redwire Greenhouse will expand opportunities for scientific discovery to improve crop production on Earth and enable critical research for crop production in space to benefit future long-term human spaceflight," said Dave Reed, Redwire's greenhouse project manager.
Future space exploration missions will need to grow crops in space as plants provide food, oxygen and water reclamation.
Washington-based cannabis company Dewey Scientific will grow industrial hemp during the greenhouse's first flight.
Redwire is working with Tupperware to create a delivery system for vitamins.
Reed said that the company hopes to help NASA on its Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond.
NASA signed a deal to build Greenhouses in Earth's atmosphere.
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