Competition looks to reinvent food production systems for space travel
At the Nation of Makers annual conference, held June 15–16 in Chattanooga, Tenn., Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden launched its Growing Beyond Earth Maker Contest, a three-year multidisciplinary endeavor to leverage the ingenuity of minds across the United States to reinvent the systems used to grow edible plants on the International Space Station (ISS) and beyond.