{"id":755,"date":"2019-02-20T23:39:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T23:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/?p=755"},"modified":"2019-02-20T23:40:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T23:40:05","slug":"starship-nematode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/starship-nematode","title":{"rendered":"Starship Nematode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/iss_sts119.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-760\" width=\"554\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/iss_sts119.jpg 900w, https:\/\/astronematode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/iss_sts119-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/astronematode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/iss_sts119-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astronematode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/iss_sts119-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>One Tiny Step for a Nematode, One Big Step Toward Sustainable Agriculture in Space<\/p>\n<p>By&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ars.usda.gov\/is\/contacts.htm#Sharon\" class=\"broken_link\">Sharon Durham<\/a><br>February 20, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON, DC, February 20, 2019<\/strong>\u2014An exciting collaboration between the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usda.gov\/\" class=\"broken_link\">USDA<\/a>) Agricultural Research Service (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ars.usda.gov\/\">ARS<\/a>) and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pheronym.com\/\">Pheronym<\/a>(Alachua, FL), will send nematodes (small round worms) into space to the International Space Station (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/main\/index.html\">ISS<\/a>). The mission represents a look into the future where food crops will be grown in space.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ars.usda.gov\/news-events\/news\/research-news\/2019\/starship-nematode\/\">Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button alignleft\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/astronematode\" style=\"background-color:#21409a\">Back our IndieGoGo campaign<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Tiny Step for a Nematode, One Big Step Toward Sustainable Agriculture in Space By&nbsp;Sharon DurhamFebruary 20, 2019 WASHINGTON, DC, February 20, 2019\u2014An exciting collaboration between the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and&nbsp;Pheronym(Alachua, FL), will send nematodes (small round worms) into space to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission represents a look into the future where food crops will be grown in space.&nbsp; Keep reading &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paA1aV-cb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronematode.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}