In 1998, my colleagues and I watched from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center as one of our experiments rocketed into orbit on the Space Shuttle Columbia. It was thrilling to know that astronauts would be caring for these plants, and doing experiments — our experiments from UF — that would help us better understand life in space. Over the years, we have sent 15 more experiments to space, and the thrill is still there every time. There are hundreds of […] Th...
