Outer Space Planter

The object I have designed for NASA’s competition is an outer space planter, meant to be used in environments with little to no gravity. As it is small, it would most likely be used for testing and research on single, smaller plants, or could act as a nursery for larger plants in their early stages of development. This would be useful on the space station, as it would allow for easy research on the affect gravity has on different plants in space.
The design is rather simple. It consists of a small, parabolic shape, a cap, and a holding box. The parabolic shape acts as a cup, which would hold the soil necessary for the plant to grow, and has several holes on the bottom which would allow for root growth. Then, there is a cap, with both a “growth hole” and a “water hole,” both of which are fairly self-explanatory; the growth hole is where the plant would grow through, and the water hole would be where the water source is intruded. Then, the holding box would hold the small growing modu