New Delhi || 30-10-2024 Since 2015, as a part of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden’s Growing Beyond Earth project, students from across the USA have been partnering with scientists at NASA to advance research on growing plants in space.
The reason behind the project is to feed astronauts on long-distance space mission. The Program is now in its 9th year. This classroom-based citizen science project for 6th-12th grade students includes a series of plant experiments conducted by students in a Fairchild-designed plant habitat similar to the Vegetable Production System (VEGGIE) on the International Space Station.
This year, more than 8000 students from 400+ schools are testing new edible plant varieties, studying radiation effects on growth, exploring the perfect light spectrum for super-sized space radishes, and experimenting with cosmic soil alternatives.
NASA citizen science projects are open to everyone around the world, not limited to U.S. citizens or residents. They are collaborations between scientists and interested members of the public.
Through these collaborations, volunteers (Citizen Scientists) have helped make thousands of important scientific discoveries. More than 450 NASA citizen scientists have been named as co-authors on refereed scientific publications. Explore opportunities for you to get involved and do NASA science.
The Growing Beyond Earth project is supported by NASA under cooperative agreement award and is part of NASA’s Science Activation Portfolio.
Those students, who have interest to be a part of this Program can see the details in the following link: https://science.nasa.gov/learn
