Thanks to NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, people around the world have been getting a glimpse of outer space on a regular basis. From how the south of India looks to the gorgeous blue of a Himalayan lake, Kelly has been regularly tweeting out images of his Mouldy flowers on the space station before Christmas Kelly Tweeted a picture of the orange zinnia plant after it burst into flower over the weekend. The zinnia are being grown in the ‘Veggie’ facility alongside a number of other plant species that can THE International Space Station’s zero-gravity vegetable garden has witnessed a tiny miracle after NASA grew the first flower in space. US astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted a photograph of the orange zinnia, which has flowered on the ISS. The flower was The first flower to blossom in space is an orange zinnia@StationCDRKelly/Twitter The International Space Station has a new guest. And no, it is not an astronaut. In fact, it is an orange zinnia flower that has bloomed for the first time ever in NASA has been, for ages, trying to find and grow life in outerspace in an attempt to study its benefits. In a social media post by one of the NASA astronauts, the first flower grown in space is revealed to be a Zinnia. Aptly called "The Veggie Project" is For, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) is offering a chance to create the arm of a space station robot, a media report said. A flower that is literally out of this world has recently blossomed aboard the International Space Station .
This weekend, the astronauts up on the International Space Station reached a major milestone: they grew the first flower in space. More specifically, they grew a firey zinnia bloom. It’s beautiful, really, and the firey orange really contrasts pretty The plant in the picture is the first of the zinnia’s to successfully flower. On November 16, 2015 NASA astronauts activated the Veggie plant growth system and its rooting “pillows” containing zinnia seeds on the space station in the first-ever The agency wasn’t sure the flower would amount to much in the first weeks of 2016, but the #spaceflower is in full bloom! Scott Kelly Tweets Picture of First Space Flower Grown at ISS This is basically alien life form since it grew very far from Earth. If you ever want to get a lot of retweets, just post a picture of a flower from outer space. You’re SET. An astronaut shared via Twitter an image of a beautiful little blooming orange Zinnia, the first ever grown in space, right at the International .