SpaceX's upcoming Fram2 astronaut mission will attempt to grow mushrooms in microgravity for the first time, as part of an experiment called Mission MushVroom.

Fayet-Moore is the founder and chief executive of FOODiQ Global, an Australian company aiming to be the first to grow mushrooms in microgravity. And the firm is about to get its chance: When SpaceX’s ...

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Moore, a space nutritionist, partnered with NASA and SpaceX to send the first mushrooms into orbit.

Among them, as Ars noted, is the plan to become the first mushroom growers in space — but "they’re not the ones you’re thinking," Philips told the website. Instead, per a Fram2 statement ...

In contrast, the Fram2 mission's 90-degree inclination means it will pass directly over both the North and South Poles. This ...

The Fram2 mission is named after the Fram ship that was the first to reach Earth’s polar regions in the late 1800s and early ...

The Fram2 crew will also attempt to grow mushrooms in space in an effort to further the extensive agricultural research that NASA has conducted on the International Space Station. That experiment ...

Fram2 is “an untraditional mission,” Mikkelsen ... The crewmates also attempted to grow mushrooms in space and have allowed their brains to be mapped and imaged for science.

For the first time, the "Mission MushVroom" experiment on SpaceX's Fram2 mission will attempt to grow mushrooms in space. Left: Zinnmann via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0. Right ...