Why Is Texas A&M Sending Grape Seeds to the International Space Station?

Why Is Texas A&M Sending Grape Seeds to the International Space Station?

The ambitious project brings together grape researchers and aerospace engineers in an unusual collaboration.Credit: Courtesy of Texas A&M University Division of Marketing & CommunicationsKey pointsTexas A&M researchers are sending hundreds of grape seeds to the International Space Station for a six-month mission to study how exposure to cosmic radiation affects their growth and genetic expression after returning to Earth.Researchers say the find…

Texas Standard for July 9, 2026: Texas A&M sends wine grape seeds to space

Researchers at Texas A&M are sending Texas wine grape seeds to the International Space Station, where they'll spend six months exposed to cosmic radiation before returning to Earth for study.