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  • ExoLab-13: Mission MushVroom !

    We’re absolutely delighted to bring you the next ExoLab experience: Mission MushVroom. ExoLab-13 marks a major departure from our usual missions. We’ve seized a rare and historic opportunity to ride along with a private astronaut crew to achieve something no other humans had ever done: a unique orbital trajectory that flew over the Earth’s poles.…

  • 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.…

  • Magnitude.io Announces Collaboration with Purdue University

    Purdue University joins the ExoLab-11 mission, studying seeds germinated and grown on the International Space Station. The research will use RNA sequencing to explore plant adaptation, while students around the world participate through the magnitude.io/ network of science labs. ALBANY, Calif., Oct. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — magnitude.io/, a provider of STEM education and space-based research…

  • 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…

  • Education and Space Communities Lose a Leader

    magnitude.io/ co-founder and serial entrepreneur Anthony (Tony) So passed away unexpectedly last Sunday at home. A private service is planned later this month. Tony leaves behind his wife Christine, and their two daughters. He was 61. The space and education communities lost an amazing teacher that knew how to meet the learner where they were…

  • Bitmoji in Space!

    We are excited to announce a fun project that we did with Bitmoji and the ISS US National Laboratory for Teachers and Students. More poses will come out next week as will more details about how YOU might be able to get you Bitmoji into space on our next mission in February! Stay tuned…  …

  • Girls in STEM – Janelle Wellons at JPL

    Janelle Wellons of Jet Propulsion Lab would like to use her story to inspire other young women to go for their dream with perseverance. We met Janelle Wellons, a recent MIT graduate, at the Engaging Girls in STEM event organized by Anthony Quan of the Los Angeles County Office of Education. Her smile, her positive attitude, and…

  • Magnitude.io introduced Cansat program at California STEM Symposium 2014

    We spent the last 2 days with about 3000 educators at the California STEM Symposium in San Diego. The common goal to inspire students to go into Science, Technology, Engineering and Math is evident. We were excited to introduce our Cansat program and our partnership with Intel in such a great venue. Super thanks to Sunny Washington (CEO)…