In filmmaker Danny Boyle’s “Sunshine,” Michelle Yeoh plays a future botanist who travels aboard a space station tending plants. Now, this futuristic concept may become a reality. Space.com reports that scientists are exploring how to extract mineral nutrients from moon dirt to use in future space farms. During the Apollo-era of space travel, astronauts brought back moon dirt to test on plants.

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Moon dirt might sustain plant life in space