High-Level Project Summary
Growing crops in space presents itself with many problems, and I have attempted to solve as many of these as I can. My plan for this is to have a rotating case in which the plants will be sealed. A water filter will be located on the right side with small opening. The plants, located in long tubes inside of the cylindrical case, will rotate around one at a to have water filtered into the clay soil replacement. The machine will be equipped with LED lights and a hatch for crew members to harvest the plants. Growing plants in space will open an abundance of opportunities for the future of space travel, and provide better tasting food to astronauts and crew members.
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Detailed Project Description
The Operation Artemis Rotating Terrarium is a cylindrical glass greenhouse with a water filter located on the right with a small opening the size of the plants’ tubes. The rows of plants will rotate one at a time into the opening to be reloaded with water twice a day. The top of the terrarium is fitted with LED lights coming at different angles so all of the plants will always be lit up. I used TinkerCad to create the 3D model for the terrarium. I hope to continue this research project more in the future, and have enjoyed my time with it so far.
Space Agency Data
This is the information from NASA that I used for research on my project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM3uaR0dltQ&list=PL37Yhb2zout05pUjr7OoRFpTNroq_wd9f&index=8
https://www.nasa.gov/content/growing-plants-in-space
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/veggie_fact_sheet_508.pdf
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/advanced-plant-habitat.pdf
Hackathon Journey
I have always been very interested in NASA and space travel as well as plants and biology. As soon as I looked at NASA's abundance of challenges and opportunities, I knew this was something I wanted to look into more closely. I started my research by reading through the resources provided by NASA on the Have Plants Will Travel page, then by reviewing some other NASA articles. Whenever I ran into a problem, I turned back to NASA for help solving it.
References
I used the articles provided by NASA for my research, and PowerPoint and TinkerCad for the presentations.
Tags
#Artemis, #Plants, #SpaceApps, #Space
Global Judging
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