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Fast Plants in Space: Next Steps with Amanda Nguyen & Emily Calandrelli Long-term space exploration depends on many factors, and plant research in space is one of the most pressing. For decades, Wisconsin Fast Plants have helped scientists and educators explore biological mysteries, and now, they’ve returned to orbit, contributing to plant research in space. Blue Origin’s Fall 2024 mission …
What if you got to put a Fast Plant Space Experiment on a rocket? What questions would you ask, and how would you design your experiment? We got that very opportunity when Emily Calandrelli, The Space Gal, offered us the chance to send seeds and experiments into orbit with her aboard Blue Origin’s NS-28 Mission. We also recently worked with …
Wisconsin Fast Plants® of the Department of Plant Pathology at UW-Madison are helping scientists explore how plants can thrive beyond Earth, and they’re paving the way for future space farming and sustainable life support systems in space. In fact, if you follow on Instagram #fastplantsinspace (@fastplants) we’ll be sharing about Fast Plants in flight on Blue Origin with Emily Calandrelli …
Wisconsin Fast Plants were developed as research tool at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and have been used by K-16 teachers around the world for nearly 30 years as an educational model-organism.
