Space Foam Crop Growth Challenge

A page for the social science outreach project looking at developing a novel polyurethane growth substrate for growing crops in Space, on the Moon and on Mars.

[Space Foam Crop Growth Challenge @SpaCEAChallenge]

Our tiny tim tomatoes at the exhibit have set fruit, and look like they're just about small enough to fit into a APH sized cabinet!

[Space Foam Crop Growth Challenge @SpaCEAChallenge]

We're at the @greatyorkshow all week with a SpaCEA exhibit, talking about why we think it's important to grow crops in space, and how technologies developed for SpaCEA can improve sustainability of earth grown crops #STEMeducation

[Space Foam Crop Growth Challenge @SpaCEAChallenge]

Chilli peppers are growing well in the SpaCEA growth cabinets built in collaboration with grobotic systems.
We're testing a polyurethane foam based growing media against archillite (@NASA choice of growing media on the ISS). We have flowers and our first fruit has set.

[Space Foam Crop Growth Challenge @SpaCEAChallenge]

Why do we need to grow plants in space? - We had this amazing film made by @Humanstudio1 for our SpaCEA project that was part of @sheffielduni Pop Up University Event and supported by @susfoodshef

https://t.co/npThyZWPaS

#ISS #plants #Space #SpaceExploration #nasa #SpaceX