The Plan to Send Plant-Filled ‘Gardens’ Into Orbit

> Off-world agriculture has long seemed experimental, but that could soon change thanks to a collaboration between design firm Heatherwick Studio and the space architecture nonprofit Aurelia Institute.

> A concept such as Space Garden, however, peers past these details to a future where the intricacies of off-world horticulture are largely solved. For Ekblaw and her colleagues, the vision depends partly on spaceflight becoming far more accessible than it is today. Launching things into orbit is going to have to get a lot cheaper and fall from thousands of dollars per kilogram at present to perhaps as little as $100–200 per kilogram, which some analysts predict will happen.