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Growing Plants in Space is the New Post-Pandemic Normality
Guest blog post by Javier Montiel, M. Ed. It is 8:00 AM, and the students know exactly what to do. As they enter the classroom, one student turns on the computer monitor that displays the space images from ISS Above and checks the maps to see when the ISS will fly over our school, another…
How can you capture the most carbon growing alfalfa?
Become a Carbon Farmer through the ExoLab-10 ground trials in preparation for the mission to the International Space Station later this year. Your goal is to grow the largest alfalfa plant in a closed and artificial environment in 28 days. Alfalfa is a versatile forage and legume crop known for high edible biomass production, ability…
ExoLab-9 Reveals Curious Plant-Microbe Complexities
When the ExoLab-9 flight samples returned to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on October 1, the post-flight investigation led by biosciences researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory unveiled an amazing scientific journey with some unexpected results. What are those? How did they get there? Plant-Microbe Interactions Yet, again, we were reminded that science…
Magnitude.io and Berkeley Lab collaborate on microgravity research for education
(BERKELEY, California) ‒ Education startup magnitude.io/ announced a multi-year collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to advance the research impacts of the ExoLab astrobotany missions to the International Space Station. Researchers with the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Lab, and others…
STEAM to TEAMS: Drawing an ExoLab
“Drawing is just probably the quickest and easiest way that we currently have to visualize our ideas. So that is why it’s such an important part of the process to make sure that we are communicating what we actually want to see.” — Kylie Burrett Students can practice their creative and modeling skills with this…
What’s the Big Idea? Legumes in Space with Ted Tagami
What’s the Big Idea? Destination Imagination Podcasts episodes 11 and 12 with Ted Tagami magnitude.io/ CEO Ted Tagami joins Destination Imagination in a 2-part podcast to discuss how his career brought him to the space space! By leading an aerospace company that conducts experiments on the International Space Station, students from around the world collaborate…
The First STAR (Spatial Team of Aeromedicine Romania)
Guest blog post by Dr. Raluca Papacocea, MD, PhD Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, Romania As medical students living during these challenging times of a global health crisis, we are aware of the responsibility that we bare as the future generation of healers. We understand the need for a new era in…
Gardeners of the Galaxy Podcast
Lori Waters from magnitude.io/ joins Emma the Space Gardener to talk about the ExoLab experiments that have sent intrepid red clover leguminauts into space, the student researchers involved in the ground control experiments, and her experiences as an analog astronaut. Listen to podcast! https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-ckaf9-10ef654
Magnitude.io Student-driven ExoLab-8 experiment returns with historic Crew-1 Dragon, sets date for ExoLab-9
Student-driven ExoLab-8 experiment launching on NG-15
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Taking distance learning to the International Space Station Orbital Classroom along with an Astro_moji Teacher (BERKELEY, California) ‒ magnitude.io/ CEO Ted Tagami announced today that its student-driven ExoLab-8 plant experiment will launch to the International Space Station (ISS) no earlier than February 20 as part of the NG-15 Cargo Resupply Mission from…