In 2021, NASA grew Hatch chile peppers aboard the ISS for 137 days; four plants in the Advanced Plant Habitat yielded 26 peppers, and the stems holding flower to fruit grew straight instead of curved as they do on Earth - Space Daily
Source:Space Daily
Weightlessness doesn’t just change how astronauts move—it rewires how plants grow, forcing botanists to rethink agriculture’s fundamentals for space.
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