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The Plan to Send Plant-Filled ‘Gardens’ Into Orbit

Chris Baraniuk

created: May 29, 2025, 10 a.m. | updated: June 15, 2025, 10:51 a.m.

This is a Space Garden. The people who came up with Space Garden want to send a full-size version, stocked with real plants and seeds, to low Earth orbit within the next five to seven years. It is, in part, an effort to reimagine what life in space could be like. “People will commute to space for work,” asserts Ariel Ekblaw, CEO of Aurelia Institute, a nonprofit space architecture design lab. The designers of Space Garden say it’s time orbital horticulture took a quantum leap, something like the giant interstellar greenhouses of the film Silent Running.

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