Nursery World - Tim Peake reveals space seeds used in children's 'rocket science' experiment

A YouTube video of astronaut Tim Peake has revealed which salad rocket seeds planted by UK children actually went into space as part of the national Rocket Science experiment – the seeds in the blue packet.

More than 600,000 children from schools and nurseries took part in the joint RHS and UK Space Agency “Rocket Science” experiment, planting and watching the seeds grow alongside each other to investigate the impact of microgravity, radiation and space travel on seed germination and gravity.

Published by the Royal Horticultural Society Campaign for School Gardening, the video shows Tim before he embarked on his Principia mission to the International Space Station (ISS), flipping a coin to decide which of two colour packets – red or blue – would contain the space seeds and which the control ‘earth’ seeds.

The space seeds in the blue packet then travelled to the International Space Station ahead of Tim on 2 September 2015 with European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen.

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