Space Station Harvest Relieves Crew’s Minds, Appetites

Gail Bingham remembers vividly the day in 1996 when a team at the Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in Moscow lost 100 of his crew members in the institute’s international space station simulation chamber. This loss was felt by few, but to the three-member team participating in the six-month ground isolation study, those 100 stalks of wheat were part of the crew.