Episodes
Episodes
Monday Mar 21, 2022
Newton’s Space Apples with Jeremy Curtis (GotG40)
Monday Mar 21, 2022
Monday Mar 21, 2022
An extraordinary apple tree in a garden in Lincolnshire is 400 years old. It inspired Sir Isaac Newton to think about gravity, and in 2015 British astronaut Tim Peake took its pips into space. In this episode, Emma the Space Gardener talks with Jeremy Curtis, Head of Education and Skills at the UK Space Agency, about sending Newton's apple seeds into space. She finds out what's happened to the space saplings and has a close encounter in Cornwall.
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Monday Feb 14, 2022
Space Plant Payloads with Carl Carruthers (GotG39)
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Getting a plant payload into space is rarely straightforward. In this episode, Emma the Space Gardener chats with Dr Carl Carruthers, who started out sending his own research projects into space and then became Chief Scientist at Nanoracks. There he worked on projects to send palm tree seeds to the International Space Station for the UAE, and to design a kit to turn school kids into space farmers.
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Monday Jan 17, 2022
Off-Nominal Space Plant Experiments (GotG38)
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Monday Jan 17, 2022
We all know that spaceflight is tricky, and after 18 months of hearing about some amazing astrobotany successes, in this episode, Emma the Space Gardener looks into some space plant experiments that didn't quite go according to plan. An astrobotanical blooper reel, if you like.
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Monday Jan 03, 2022
Small Space Gardening with Mark Ridsdill Smith (GotG37)
Monday Jan 03, 2022
Monday Jan 03, 2022
In this episode, Emma the Space Gardener talks to Vertical Veg Man Mark Ridsdill Smith, an expert on small space gardening on Earth. Small space gardening shares many of the same constraints facing space gardeners, although harvesting runner beans up a ladder isn't one of them!
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Friday Dec 17, 2021
Food for Mars and Moon with Wieger Wamelink (GotG36)
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Join Emma the Space Gardener as she talks to Dr Wieger Wamelink about how he became a space farmer, his experiments growing plants on Moon and Mars soil simulants, the importance of developing off-world ecosystems, and whether we can bring pet chickens to Mars!
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Monday Nov 29, 2021
NASA‘s Space Salad Machines (GotG35)
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
In episode 35, Emma the Space Gardener explores why bioregenerative life support systems are things we only see in the movies, and how far NASA has come in its quest to build a space salad machine.
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Monday Nov 15, 2021
Nitrogen in Space with Luke Fountain (GotG34)
Monday Nov 15, 2021
Monday Nov 15, 2021
Luke Fountain joins Emma the Space Gardener to talk about the different ways plants use nitrogen. Luke is investigating two different processes in the nitrogen cycle, and his work could help us to grow crops more sustainably on Earth - and have applications in space! Luke is also part of the team working on the SpaCEA Space Foam Crop Growth Challenge, which will turn everyday citizens into Earth-bound astrobotanists.
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Friday Oct 29, 2021
Snails in Space! (GotG33)
Friday Oct 29, 2021
Friday Oct 29, 2021
Hello, Gardeners of the Galaxy! Just in time for Halloween, Emma the Space Gardener presents a truly terrifying episode, involving our gardening nemesis. When you learn just how many snails have been sent to space, you'll be horrified! 🐌 🚀
(And they're not the only pests to have made it into space 😱.)
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Plants. In Space.
The International Space Station has been continuously inhabited for more than 20 years, but the astronauts that live there have only grown a few mouthfuls of food. As we make the move into deep space, to the Moon, and on to Mars, we need to learn how to grow plants in space, and that's what Gardeners of the Galaxy is all about.