High-Level Project Summary
When a space voyage to Mars is considered, there will obviously be a lot of challenges to overcome. Time, distance and how to keep the astronauts alive during the journey astronauts should be kept fed. However, this has been one of the major challenges that the scientists have been facing from a lot of time. One of the main challenges in countering this problem is how to preserve food items for such a long time in a space. Even though they could be preserving their taste, smell and nutrition are difficult to be maintained. Also, the journey is estimated to take around three years. Hence carrying such a heavy load of food for space is not practical. Hence, we have teamed up to tackle this.
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Detailed Project Description
As we know traveling to mars is a huge task
there are many obstacles with that
but supply of a sustainable food system is a one of most hardest problem
but We provide a sustainable solution for the food problem that arises during a lengthy space voyage. We have used three different types of crops and designed Air flow, Fertilizer , Compartment , Soil , lightning and other supporting systems
Space Agency Data
We used NASA Data for our project.
We went through NASA sites and gathered information which lead us to Create a crop system which satisfy astronauts' daily nutrient requirements without the problems which related to ordinary methods
I got my biggest motivation by going through those articles since a long time ago
we wanted to know about month end it's details and with the help of NASA website
Hackathon Journey
This really was a very Good Experience. Our mutual interest in space and Designing a space food led us to choose this challenge. With the pandemic we had to use zoom meetings to communicate with team members and that was a bit challenging however really excited with our output as a team
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Tags
#Agriculture #Space#Foodsystem#Crops#Potato#pumpkin#mushroom#Technology#Engineering#mars
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