Astronauts will attempt to grow mushrooms in space for the first time during SpaceX's upcoming Fram2 mission. Launching aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as early as Monday (March 31), the Fram2 mission ...

For the first time, the "Mission MushVroom" experiment on SpaceX's Fram2 mission will attempt to grow mushrooms in space. Left: Zinnmann via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0. Right ...

The Fram2 crew will be the first people to observe the polar regions from low Earth orbit, and they'll work on experiments and projects designed to forward our understanding of long-duration ...

Moore, a space nutritionist, partnered with NASA and SpaceX to send the first mushrooms into orbit.

Fram2 marks the first time that mushrooms will be cultivated as a crop. Fayet-Moore refers to mushrooms as "the perfect space crop," explaining that "the way they grow and complement plant systems ...

When SpaceX launches its next mission in the coming days, it will include an Australian-led experiment that could have ...

The Fram2 crew will also attempt to grow mushrooms in space in an effort to further the extensive agricultural research that NASA has conducted on the International Space Station. That experiment ...

The crew will perform 22 scientific experiments over the course of the mission, including growing mushrooms in space for the first time ever and taking X-rays of the human body in orbit, also never ...

A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on Monday night, sending four amateur astronauts on an unprecedented journey around Earth’s poles. The mission is traveling where no crew has gone before, and SpaceX just ...

Fayet-Moore is the founder and chief executive of FOODiQ Global, an Australian company aiming to be the first to grow mushrooms in microgravity. And the firm is about to get its chance: When SpaceX’s ...

Astronauts will attempt to grow mushrooms in space for the first time during SpaceX's upcoming Fram2 mission. Launching aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as early as Monday (March 31), the Fram2 ...