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NASA experiment simulates growing potatoes on MARS: Space spuds could help us colonise the Red Planet Ridley Scott's sci-fi blockbuster  The Martian  showed Matt Damon's stranded astronaut  trying to grow potatoes  on the inhospitable surface of Mars. A team of scientists working with NASA is now attempting to make  that science fiction into a science fact   The objective is twofold: firstly, as a stepping stone to figuring out how to grow space spuds for real once we get humans to Mars. And secondly, to show how resultant the humble potato is and potentially save lives here on Earth. The idea is that the experiment will pressure governments to fund development of farming in devastated areas around the globe. "How better to learn about climate change than by growing crops on a planet that died two billion years ago?" said Joel Ranck, head of communications at the International Potato Center. "We need people to understand that if we can grow potatoes ...

John Glenn, a freckle-faced son of Ohio who was hailed as a national hero and a symbol of the space age as the first American to orbit Earth, then became a national political figure for 24 years in the Senate, died on Thursday in Columbus, Ohio. He was 95. Ohio State University announced his death. Mr. Glenn had recently been hospitalized at the university at the James Cancer Center, though Ohio State officials said at the time that admission there did not necessarily mean he had cancer. He had heart-valve replacement surgery in 2014 and a stroke around that time. He had kept an office at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs, which he helped found, and also had a home in Columbus. In just five hours on Feb. 20, 1962, Mr. Glenn joined a select roster of Americans whose feats have seized the country’s imagination and come to embody a moment in its history, figures like Lewis and Clark, the Wright brothers and Charles Lindbergh. To the America of the 1960s, Mr. Glenn was a cl...