NASA's 1984 SEEDS Project Sent Millions of Tomato Seeds to Space for Student Science
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·2 viewsIn 1984, NASA launched the SEEDS project to study how the space environment influences plant growth. The initiative distributed kits containing space-flown tomato seeds and Earth-grown control seeds to roughly 3.3 million students across approximately 40,000 schools worldwide. Students compared the germination and growth of both seed types as part of a hands-on science experiment. Early results showed a slightly higher germination rate in the space-exposed seeds, though meaningful growth differences between the two groups faded over the plants' full life cycles.
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