Rocket Science

On the 2^nd September 2015 2 kilograms of rocket seed were sent to the International Space Station and stored in microgravity by Tim Peake, before the seeds were returned to Earth in spring 2016.

Year 2 were fortunate in being able to conduct an experiment with two packets of the rocket seed.

One pack was blue and one pack was red. One of the seed packets had been stored in space, the other hadn’t. We have no idea which is which.

Our experiment, which was kindly overseen by Dr. Ross consisted of both packets of seeds, red and blue, being sown in identical conditions by Year 2 in an effort to discover whether storing the seeds in microgravity made any difference to the germination process.

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