Growing Beyond Earth Make-A-Thon: Crowdsourcing Prototypes for The Plant Growing Chamber on the International Space Station

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden has been working with NASA to identify specific plant varieties that would be ideal candidates to feed astronauts on the ISS. Now, we’ve partnered with Fairchild, NASA, IMLS, Nation of Makers, Adadruit, Instructables, MakerBot, and littleBits|Sphero to host a series of annual maker contests, crowdsourcing ideas that solve specific challenges for NASA’s research and development on farming in space. Read More…