---
title: "Norway Wants To Grow Food Crops In Space"
description: "A team of scientists in Norway are set to research the possibility of growing plants and food crops in outer space to help supply space travelers with oxygen and food"
date: "2014-11-22"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Andreea Popescu"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/andreeathecat"
url: "https://futurism.com/norway-wants-grow-food-crops-space"
categories:
  - "Food"
  - "Future Society"
  - "Off-World"
  - "Space"
tags:
  - "space"
---

# Norway Wants To Grow Food Crops In Space

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- A new EU-funded research project is set to begin researching how food plants grow in space and how the horticulture could supply space travelers with oxygen and food
- The 10-year project called "TIME SCALE" will be led by Ann-Iren Kittang Jost, research chief at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Space (CIRiS) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim
- The research team has not yet decided what plants they will try and grow, but are looking at tomatoes, lettuce and soybeans