Growing Tomatoes in Space (2014)

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) Eu:CROPIS Mission will enable scientists to conduct experiments to determine whether tomato plants will grow and bear fruit in a closed life support system under lunar and Martian conditions. A symbiotic community of bacteria, tomatoes and single-celled algae, synthetic urine and a satellite that simulates the gravity of the Moon or Mars by rotating around its axis – these elements make up the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und- Raumfahrt; DLR) Eu:CROPIS (Euglena and Combined Regenerative Organic-Food Production in Space) mission. Eu:CROPIS carries two other experiments: the DLR Institute of Aerospace Medicine will use the radiation detector RAMIS (Radiation Measurement in Space) to collect data on long-term exposure to cosmic radiation over the course of the space flight.

Source: www.dlr.de