Greenhouse Design Live Webchats

When a lunar base is eventually built, plants will be an important source for food, water, oxygen, and to recycle waste. Three times this month, NASA "expert space farmers" will be holding live web-chats to collaborate towards an effective lunar greenhouse model. The chats between NASA experts and K-12 students/teachers is a jumping off point for a contest to design the best greenhouse. Participants even get their own packet of basil seeds that flew in space on the STS-118 shuttle mission. Groups will design, create, and test their designs using the basil seeds. I'm not sure that there is a prize awarded to the best design, but having the project you created used on the lunar base is pretty cool.