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On most days, Ferl and Paul would don their heavy red overalls and venture the several hundred yards across the ice and snow to their lab, where they cultivated a variety of salad crops for study and for consumption. The researchers also have a long-term experiment on the International Space Station, so Paul says that one day, “We tied up the entire bandwidth of the station for an hour to communicate with the ISS to conduct our experiment.” On another day, they conducted a class for students back in Gainesville from the Future Exploration Greenhouse.