SCIENTISTS have grown chickpeas in moon dirt in a bid to prove humans could farm in space. The airless, dry and rocky conditions are one of the greatest barriers to setting up cosmic colonies. Chickpeas were planted in a mixture based on lunar regolith — rocky debris collected on Apollo missions. The experts added compost…
https://www.the-sun.com/tech/16045055/chickpeas-grow-moon-soil-space-farming-breakthrough/