NASA features horti in its ISS photos of the year

No sooner had we looked at the International Space Station's latest horticultural lighting project than we spotted NASA's freshly-posted list of its own favorite pictures from the ISS over the last year. And whadya know: Horticulture, and by inference horticultural lighting, featured prominently.

NASA singled out a chili pepper project and another in which astronauts cultivated bok choy among the 25 photos on its web post "Best Space Station Science Pictures of 2021."

The space agency double dipped on the chilis, presenting two photos. In one of them, astronaut Kayla Barron floats, smiling, in front of the Advanced Plant Habitat (APH), where a luscious-looking batch of red chili peppers awaits harvesting. In the second photo, astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Shane Kimbrough, Akihiko Hoshide, and Megan McArthur show off another lot of both red and green chilies which they helped to grow, also in the APH.

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Source: LEDs Magazine