{"id":92817,"date":"2019-06-28T11:03:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T18:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/nasa-needs-your-help-do-you-know-how-to-grow-plants-in-space"},"modified":"2019-06-28T11:03:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T18:03:05","slug":"nasa-needs-your-help-do-you-know-how-to-grow-plants-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/nasa-needs-your-help-do-you-know-how-to-grow-plants-in-space","title":{"rendered":"NASA needs your help: Do you know how to grow plants in space?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-needs-your-help-do-you-know-how-to-grow-plants-in-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you know how to maintain a family-sized garden without unlimited soil, natural sunlight and Earth\u2019s gravity? If the answer is yes, then call NASA.<\/p>\n<p>The Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami in partnership with NASA is calling all \u201cmakers\u201d to participate in its \u201cGrowing Beyond Earth Maker Contest.\u201d The challenge is to reinvent the systems used to grow <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/edible+plants\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">edible plants<\/a> on the International Space Station and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Fairchild and NASA began their partnership in 2015 to find more ways to sustain plant life in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/space\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">space<\/a>. Last summer, the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/botanical+garden\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">botanical garden<\/a> received a nearly $750,000 grant from NASA to support its Growing Beyond Earth Innovation Studio, a community work space dedicated to the technology of growing food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know how to maintain a family-sized garden without unlimited soil, natural sunlight and Earth\u2019s gravity? If the answer is yes, then call NASA. The Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami in partnership with NASA is calling all \u201cmakers\u201d to participate in its \u201cGrowing Beyond Earth Maker Contest.\u201d The challenge is to reinvent the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}