Buy seeds from space to make yourself an intergalactic salad
In fact, they were actually some of the first organisms to go to space. In 1946, the US launched a V-2 rocket as part of its work towards launching manned spacecraft—aboard the rocket were seeds, but the payload was lost. The next year, another rocket carried more seeds into space, and soon all manner of wildflower and vegetable seeds were blasting into orbit.
Park's work with NASA continued for decades. These particular seeds rode aboard NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery during a 2006 mission that carried one million cinnamon basil seeds into orbit, exposing them to outer space before they returned to terra firma. Those seeds are the ones you can now buy for $27, which also gets you a pack of normal, boring old cinnamon basil seeds to serve as a control group in your experiments.
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