(UPDATED) WASHINGTON: That's one small pot of soil, one giant leap for man's knowledge of space agriculture: scientists have for the first time grown plants in lunar soil brought back by astronauts in the Apollo program.
The ground-breaking experiment, detailed in the journal Communications Biology on Thursday (Friday in Manila), has given researchers hope that it may be possible to one day grow plants directly on the Moon.
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