COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – A Friday space launch was more than a year, and a couple of days, in the making for a group of University of Colorado-Colorado Springs and Pikes Peak State College Students.
A black mold experiment created by that group of students was on board the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket when it took off for the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday.
“If [the black mold’s] more efficient at taking away a lot of the toxins for plants to grow, that means we can quickly establish agriculture on the moon, on Mars,” Tristian Dwyer, a UCCS student who worked on the experiment, said…