Shuttle ATLANTIS Outer Space Flown Tomato Seeds NASA Science Experiment Vintage for Sale

Shuttle ATLANTIS Outer Space Flown Tomato Seeds NASA Science Experiment Vintage For Sale

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Shuttle ATLANTIS Outer Space Flown Tomato Seeds NASA Science Experiment Vintage:
$350.00

RARE COLLECTIBLE ITEM

NASA AUTHENTIC SPACE SHUTTLE ATLANTIS

OUTER SPACE FLOWN SEEDS

* 4 PAGE INFORMATION PRESENTATION

* A LETTER TO EDUCATORS BY NASA AND THE AMES LABORATORY ON HOW TO GROW AND USE THESE RETURNED FROM OUTER SPACE SEEDS

* LARGE BRILLIANT COLOR TWO SIDED ORIGINAL POSTER

ABOUT THE EXPERIMENTS

INCLUDED:

Three still sealed, separate packets of seeds completing one set of Seeds in Space II experiment and presentation.

All seeds come from tomato plants of the same species.

Park Seed Company of South Carolina assisted in preparation, storage and packaging these seeds.

One set was kept at Park Seed facilities as the control seeds.

One set was sealed in a Get-Away Special Canister and flown aboard space shuttle Atlantis as part of the payload for the STS-86 mission.

The third set here was sealed in a dry container and placed in the Scott Carpenter Space Analog Station that was deployed underwater in Key Largo, Florida.

The Space Shuttle Flown Seeds:

Identification of environment facility, cargo bay of Space Shuttle Atlantis.

Location of the facility: Earth orbit.

Container used: Get Away Special Canister

Temperature range: 16-28 degrees centigrade

Humidity: zero. Pressure: zero

Underwater Habitat seeds:

Location of facility: 30' undersea at Key Largo, Florida

Container used: Dry canister

Temperature range: 23-28 degrees centigrade

Humidity 80-99%. Pressure: 1.6 atmospheres

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