QUESTION:
Has NASA ever grown plants in space?

ANSWER from Duncan Atchison on May 17, 1998:
Yes - we've flown many plant experiments, on the shuttle, on Mir, on the
Cosmos biosatellite.  There is a division of nasa devoted to studying life
in space, see:
http://lifesci.arc.nasa.gov/home.html

Also, we had a project where we had students like yourself design plant
growing devices in space, see:
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/smore/events/index.html

Good luck,  growing plants in space is a fascinating subject!