I engineer through the spectrum of biology & art. I love to integrate nature & technology to contribute to space biology+inspire others to do great things
Cape Canaveral, FL
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Can anyone say “Space Tomatoes?”🚀🍅 Veg-05 is ready for launch 🚀 So excited for @plantsinspace!! #veg05 #SpX26 😃😃👋🏼🌱🌱🚀🍅🚀🍅🚀🍅🚀🍅🚀🍅🌱🌱
Growing Beyond Earth 🌎 🌱 requires hard work, but also a little help from technology. Like an astronaut, I have a lot to do while in the lab. So, I employed an @arduino board to help me grow through. Here’s how it went down🌱@GrowBeyondEarth – at Florida, USA
My Hydroponic Banksy Jar🫙explodes lettuce on harvest day! We’re doing a 3D printed materials plant growth experiment at @NASAKennedy @plantsinspace and I make up a good team 🌱🚀 #nasa #3dprint #spacebiology #veggie #aph #controlledenvironmentagriculture #scientist #engineering – at Cape Canaveral, FL
Growing Beyond Earth, Herbs #2 @NASAKennedy HARVEST!! They smelled soo soo good! They all grew great, but basil 164 overshadowed all the others! Here’s how I did it. Misome #2 is next! @GrowBeyondEarth – at Cape Canaveral, FL
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🌾For todays third installment of #SpaceFarmingFriday let's take a look at @SAICinc's great tribute to Dr. Ray Wheeler from @NASAKennedy who has been an incredible pioneer of off-Earth agriculture! 🚀
ALT Dr. Ray Wheeler tending to crops in a Martian greenhouse
This is an experiment that I was growing. Each cart had a different candidate irrigation system for microgravity and we grew the same plant to see how they compared to each other. These were Red Robin tomatoes that are currently growing in Veggie #Veg05 🚀 🍅 – at Cape Canaveral, FL
Takeaway from Veggie Lab: to give our astronauts a healthy diet as we go further into space we’ve got to learn how to grow crops. Thus far research is on pick & grow crops like butter lettuce or bok choy. @nasa #NASASocial 🚀
I think it’s cooler to see my plants and work in tweets and posts instead of myself. they always look 👀 good! 🌱🌱😃😃 – at Cape Canaveral, FL
Welcome to the Veggie Lab! Because there isn’t a farmer’s market in space, our scientists find way to grow plants in microgravity so that @NASA_Astronauts can enjoy fresh veggies. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at plants grown in the lab here on Earth! 🥬🍅🌱
These are pictures taken while I was an intern at @NASAKennedy. We filled Greenwerks with all kinds of plants 🌱 and experiments 🧫 that work led to my job as a horticultural scientist 👨🔬 – at Cape Canaveral, FL
The Veggie Plant Growth Facility is where NASA is working toward the crucial goal of growing food in low or no gravity environments. The lab is currently growing Zinnia from seeds harvested on the ISS from Scott Kelly's plant!
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At the @NASA “Veggie Lab,” scientists and engineers replicate what the #astronauts do on the @Space_Station, but work on a two-day delay so they can plan to replicate any unforeseen circumstances. #NASASocial
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Adding a little spice to life in space!
#TBT to this experiment which cultivated chile peppers aboard @Space_Station for the first time. This and our other plant studies provide insight into growing food crops for long-duration space missions! Learn more: go.nasa.gov/2YN8baW
ALT Expedition 65 Flight Engineers (from left) Mark Vande Hei, Shane Kimbrough, Akihiko Hoshide and Megan McArthur, pose with chile peppers grown in space for the first time aboard the International Space Station for the Plant Habitat-04 investigation. Credit: NASA
It’s so much fun to grow along with NASA as they grow plants in space. Veg-05 is growing Red Robin tomatoes 🍅 so I/we are too! 😃you should grow along too! #spacetomatochallenge @TheSpaceChileG1 🌶️🍅🚀🚀🌶️🚀🍅🍅🌱🌱🌱🚀 – at Cape Canaveral, FL
I’m getting ready to walk to the beach 🏝️ to see the launch 🚀 I love living on the Space Coast! #Crew6 – at Cape Canaveral, FL
Watch Falcon 9 launch Dragon and Crew-6 to the @space_station → spacex.com/launches/ xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1lDxLnRnO…
Dr Gioia Massa is the biggest influence on my space biology self. I’m honored to say that I’m part of her team!! 😃 she is the REAL REAL space farmer. She’s growing tomatoes in Veggie right now #veg05 – at Cape Canaveral, FL
This is my great friend Jess Bunchek. We both came up together as NASA interns. She’s world famous now. 🥹🌱🚀🌱🚀 – at Cape Canaveral, FL
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I am just a funny scientist. I can’t believe that’s what I became. lol I’m with student Matt Hardy here. He made great contributions to a flight experiment we have coming up. Hey, thank you for sharing Trevor!!! 🌶️🚀 – at Cape Canaveral, FL
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This was when Lashelle Spencer and I were growing peppers while working to identify one to grow in space. In the end we grew the NUMEX Española Improved from @chilepepperinst 🌶️🌶️🌶️🚀🚀🚀🌶️🌶️🌶️🌱🌱🌶️🌱🚀 – at Cape Canaveral, FL
Next stop: the space plant biology lab 🌱. Here the #NASASocial group is learning how we grow plants in space aboard the @Space_Station: nasa.gov/content/growing-pla…
Dow Farmers are doing a poll! Which camber do you like better? @GrowBeyondEarth – at Cape Canaveral, FL
(1/2) #DowHighspacefarmers need your help! Which Chamber looks more appealing to you? Scan the QR code or answer our Twitter poll below🌱🧐🚀🌱@GrowBeyondEarth @FairchildGarden @JacobIkaros @trentmsmith @MidlandPS @TedDavis05 @andrewkearns64 #spacebotany #scicomm
PH07 in the works! We’re going back to space! Fasten your seatbelts! 😃🌱🌱🚀🚀🚀🥬🥬🥬🥬🚀🚀#ph07 – at Cape Canaveral, FL
My friend @Botany_nerd research!! She’s growing microgreens in simulated microgravity 🌱🌱😃😃 – at Cape Canaveral, FL
Test growing #microgreens in #microgravity 🌍💫💫💫 #eat healthy in #space means grow healthy on #earth 🌍💚 @NASASocial @NASAKennedy #crew6 #ilovefood 👩🏻🚀