China ‘Colonizes’ Space with Its First Rice Harvest

New America Strategist Peter W. Singer writes with Thomas Corbett on China's cultivation of food in space for Defense One.

In the real world, China recently reached a similar milestone in the human habitation of space, with the announcement by the Chinese Academy of Sciences that rice seeds had been harvested on the Chinese Tiangong space station. This achievement represents an especially large step forward for China’s greater plans towards permanent human settlement on the Moon and beyond.

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