Chinese astronauts have successfully grown rice seedlings onboard the Tiangong space station.
Experts said on Monday that this experiment could provide important information about how astronauts can grow food to support extended space journeys.
Even though prior rice experiments have been conducted in space, the one carried out aboard Tiangong is the first of its type to attempt to produce the entire life cycle of the plant, which starts with a seed and ends with a full plant generating new seeds.
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