Space Farming: the Moon, Mars, and Beyond

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Space Farming the Moon, Mars, and Beyond
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Candidate Food Crops
GRAIN CROPS Wheat Rice
SALAD CROPS Lettuce Spinach Tomato Carrot Radish
LEGUME CROPS Soybean Peanut Dry Bean Peas
SUGAR CROPS Sugar Beets
FRUIT CROPS Strawberry Grapes Muskmelon
TUBER CROPS Potato Sweet Potato
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Plant Essential Nutrients
Macronutrients
Micronutrients
Oxygen (O) Carbon (C) Hydrogen (H) Nitrogen
(N) Potassium (K) Phosphorus (P) Calcium
(Ca) Magnesium (Mg) Sulfur (S)
Iron (Fe) Manganese (Mn) Zinc (Zn) Copper
(Cu) Molybdenum (Mo) Boron (B) Chlorine (Cl)
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Plant Essential Nutrients Positively Detected in
Moon Soil
Macronutrients
Micronutrients
Oxygen (O) Carbon (C) Hydrogen
(H) Nitrogen (N) Potassium (K) Phosphorus
(P) Calcium (Ca) Magnesium (Mg) Sulfur (S)
Iron (Fe) Manganese (Mn) Zinc (Zn) Copper
(Cu) Molybdenum (Mo)? Boron (B)? Chlorine (Cl)
These elements will come from the habitats air
and water supply
These elements come from the solar wind and are
in very small amounts
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Corn treated with lunar material from Apollo 17
mission
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Plant Essential Nutrients Positively Detected in
Mars Soil
Macronutrients
Micronutrients
Iron (Fe) Manganese (Mn) Zinc (Zn) Copper
(Cu) Molybdenum (Mo) Boron (B) Chlorine (Cl)
Oxygen (O) Carbon (C) Hydrogen (H) Nitrogen
(N) Potassium (K) Phosphorus (P) Calcium
(Ca) Magnesium (Mg) Sulfur (S)
These elements will come from the habitats air
and water supply
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NASA'S ZEOPONIC PLANT GROWTH SYSTEM
Plants
Water
Apatite
"Soil Solution
Bacteria
Air
Zeolite
Dolomite
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Biomass Production System Orbital Technologies
Corp.
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The Salad Machine
Proposed for the International Space Station to
produce fresh salad crops for the Astronauts.
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Engineering Design Challenge
Todays Guest John Gruener, NASA Johnson Space
Center
Design and submit your lunar plant growth chamber
to your local Challenger Learning Center by Nov.
30, 2007 to receive basil seeds that have flown
in space. For resources and information
supporting the NASA Engineering Design
Challenge visit http//www.challenger.org/clc/eng
design.cfm
www.nasa.gov
www.challenger.org