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  • Australia’s Simple Seeds joins ExoLab-11 [T-7 days]

    Ben Newsome from Fizzics Education, chats with Ted Tagami on Australia joining the ExoLab-11 mission. With support from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Plants in Space, SARDI Australian Pastures Genebank, and AVAchallenge.org, students across Australia will upcycle a 2L soda bottle – the same volume of our ExoLab – to create an analog equivalent.…

  • Plants for Space Launch Magnitude.io’s “Simple Seeds” Program on AVAchallenge.org

    Plants for Space and magnitude.io/ Partner to Bring Space-Based Plant Experiments to Australian Classrooms ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space and magnitude.io/ are excited to announce the launch of their Simple Seeds program, a groundbreaking initiative that will allow students across Australia to participate in real space-based plant experiments. This innovative program will…

  • July 23 Lecture: Plants For Space w/ Dr. Frazer Thorpe

    Plants provide humans with oxygen, food, shelter, medicine, and countless other resources essential for our survival and well-being. Crop growth during NASA missions is essential to provide fresh foods for crew members while providing oxygen, medicine, and a close tie to earth. Growing plants in microgravity and on the moon facilitates biological science while lifting…

  • Reflections: Equinox in Australia

    I am not the most avid social media poster. I don’t write as often as I should, preferring to curate and share the very cool things around the world that I think friends and colleagues would enjoy as I discover them. This post is an update on a recent trip. I hope you find it…