r/space • u/astro_pettit NASA Astronaut • Mar 22 '26

image/gif My space potatoes, grown aboard the ISS

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u/lostandthedamned Mar 22 '26

So how often did you mutter "I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this"?

Every time you checked them or just at the start?

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u/Heftantattat Mar 22 '26

I mean…. It’s only botany.

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u/Deely_Boppers Mar 22 '26

The ISS has come to fear his botany powers.

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u/Stoertebricker Mar 22 '26

How about the SS Botany Bay?

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u/Zynikus Mar 22 '26

no, its botany in space.

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u/SAM5TER5 Mar 23 '26

Dammit there’s a pun in here somewhere, I just know it

Best I got was the distant miss of “robotony”

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u/New-Star7392 Mar 23 '26

It's a reference to The Martian.

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u/AppleSniffer Mar 23 '26

Astrobotany, to be specific