The Bane of Anybody's Life When They're Growing Plants

Nassa sterilizes everything before it goes into space, so no snails and slugs that have made it on board. There's been the occasional mosquito that sort of snuck in before the shuttle took off or whatever. But there have been problems with plant pathagins, plant diseases. In fact, one of those very famous leaves, scott kelly, i think is 20 15, was growing a crop of zinia flowers in the little vegi growing system. It became apparent that the plants were getting too much water. And he rang the ground team at four o'clock in the morning to say, there's mould growing on the zinias. So they had