Space Daily September 06, 2026 • 13:59

In 2021, NASA grew Hatch chile peppers aboard the ISS for 137 days; four plants in the Advanced Plant Habitat yielded 26 peppers, and the stems holding flower to fruit grew straight instead of curved as they do on Earth - Space Daily

Weightlessness doesn't just change how astronauts move—it rewires how plants grow, forcing botanists to rethink agriculture's fundamentals for space.

In 2021, a chile plant did something on the International Space Station that it has never done on Earth: it held its fruit out straight.
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In 2021, NASA grew Hatch chile peppers aboard the ISS for 137 days; four plants in the Advanced Plant Habitat yielded 26 peppers, and the stems holding flower to fruit grew straight instead of curved as they do on Earth - Space Daily

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