The First Plants to Grow on the Moon Are Already Dead
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9k4ejy/the-first-plants-to-grow-on-the-moon-are-already-dead
One day after China announced it grew the first plants on the Moon, the fledgling plants have been pronounced dead. Rest in peace, lunar sprouts.
On Tuesday, China's space program said that cotton seeds had germinated in a biosphere carried to the Moon by the nation’s Chang’e-4 lunar lander. By Wednesday, mission leads had broken the news that the plants perished as the lunar night fell over the probe’s landing site.