Successful domestic development: Hungarian space pepper can grow outside the Earth

The specialists of the University of Debrecen (DE) are carrying out innovative space gardening development and scientific experiments during the research called VEGBOX TS, which is running within the framework of the HUNOR-Hungarian Astronaut Program. If the project is successful, Hungarian peppers can even be grown in space - wrote the information sheet presenting the research. In the research, the specialists of the Faculty of Agriculture, Food Science and Environmental Management (MÉK) carry out several innovative space gardening developments and scientific experiments. László Csernoch, the scientific vice chancellor of the University of Debrecen, the head of the space research program, highlighted that the university already had programs in the 1970s that dealt with the processing of samples sent into space and returned back to Earth. The university reported the details. At the Faculty of Agriculture, Food Science and Environmental Management of the University of Debrecen, a ...