LAFAYETTE, La., Oct. 12 -- The University of Louisiana at Lafayette issued the following news release:
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette's Dr. Karl Hasenstein has spent more than three decades researching ways to grow plants and vegetables in space, producing a body of work that's informing longstanding efforts to colonize the moon and Mars.
As part of NASA-funded research, Hasenstein, a distinguished professor emeritus of biology in the Ray P. Authement College of Sciences, has sent several experiments to the International Space Station.
His studies have examined how plants growing inside artificial habitats sense and react to gravity in a weightless environment, how altered or reduced gravity affects plants' growth and metabolis...