This experiment will fly to the ISS on the Northrup Grumman Commercial Resupply Services Mission 18, tentatively set for November 6th, 2022.Exposure to the stress of spaceflight shows that things like an arabidopsis plant (previously grown on the station) actually change their genetics.Living in space changes that a little bit, but figuring out that process and how extensive it is takes time and multiple experiments.Get the ad-free experience for life“Plant Habitat-03 will provide a better understanding of how the epigenome contributes to an organism’s ability to adapt to environmental stress, in both current and subsequent generations,” said Sharmila Bhattacharya, space biology program scientist in NASA’s Biological and Physical Sciences Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington.Previous ISS studies have looked at growing plants in space, for example, by studying how best to provide water and aeration to microgravity gardens."