NASA wants to grow food on Mars (and the Moon)

You know what’s cooler than exploring Mars? Growing food on it.

NASA and the German space agency are doing research into farming on Mars.

This goes well with Elon Musk’s vision of living on Mars. If we want to live on the Red Planet, we need to learn to grow food there as well.

A serious business: NASA already has a few innovations that revolutionized the agriculture business, including vertical farming, which is now a multi-billion dollar business.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/20/space-agencies-are-learning-how-to-farm-on-mars-and-the-moon.html

Cool! More worlds to explore... and completely fuck up.
But yes there is a strong push to build an escape colony on one of the nearby planets. I'm all for risk mitigation.

bastards cant even maintain life here.

Tell those mfs to grow food for starving nations like yamen, east africa and USA.