Re: Smells of Natures

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:43:15 -0400, Jeff Lerner wrote:

> I read some comments from the Expedition 10 crew that mirrored similar
> comments from other long duration astronauts/cosmonauts. Both Chiao and
> Sharipov said that they were looking forward to the presence of nature
> again after the sterile ISS environment, The smell of grass and flowers,
> etc.. I believe there have been attempts to grow food-type plants (wheat
> ??) aboard Station but wouldn't it be possible to introduce flowers, a
> strip of sod, some other botanical presence that could take up very
> little room, use waste water and perhaps some processed compost aboard
> Station to provide those smells of Nature returning crews talk about ??
>
>

You get the same experiance returning to land after a long sea voyage. You
can smell it as you get close. If they brought some sod along, then they
would miss the "good" experiance of looking forward to the smells of
nature. It's only after having been without something, that you realize
how much it really means.

There are many reason to have a "Garden" module on the space station.

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