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Plants that are not traditionally grown in a climate would be possible to grow using a controlled environment system like hydroponics.
During World War II, produce was grown with hydroponics on the barren Pacific Islands.
According to a 1938 Times magazine article, this was one of the first times that commercial use of hydroponics was used on such a large scale to feed people.
This group of islands was used as a refuelling stop for Pan-Am Airways, and the food was used to feed the staff and crew.
This means that salad greens could be grown in Antarctica or even the Mojave Desert.
NASA has also looked to utilize hydroponics in the space program.
Ray Wheeler, plant physiologist at Kennedy Space Center ’ s Space Life Science Lab, believes that hydroponics will create advances within space travel.
He terms this as “ a life support system with the biological component of growing plants — called a bioregenerative life support system.
It has several benefits for NASA .” These scientists are researching how different amounts of light, temperature and carbon dioxide, along with plant species can be grown and cultivated on planets like Mars.

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