NASA celebrates a decade of student contributions to space crop production

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 21, 2025

In 2025, nearly 1,250 students in 71 classrooms participated in the Growing Beyond Earth Student Launch Chat, celebrating ten years of partnership between Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden and NASA. Students presented data from classroom crop experiments to NASA Kennedy Space Center experts, supporting NASA’s work on selecting crops for future Moon and Mars missions.

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