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The Space Gardener

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Alok Jha talks to NASA astro-botanist Jess Bunchek about growing vegetables in Antarctica – and outer space.


Jess started as a botanist and agronomist and, after completing her masters, worked as an astro-botanist at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where she researched space crop production and supported “Veggie” – a vegetable production chamber on the International Space Station.


While at NASA, she proposed a new collaboration with Germany's space agency, DLR, on the EDEN ISS greenhouse project in Antarctica. For this, Jess overwintered for 14 months at Germany's Neumayer Station III in Antarctica from late 2020 to early 2022, where she operated EDEN ISS and contributed to multiple areas of Antarctic research.


For more information about our guests and episode transcripts, click here

To support the work of the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, click here


Season 4 of A Voyage to Antarctica is made possible with support from Hurtigruten Expeditions.



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A Voyage to Antarctica

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Alok Jha talks to NASA astro-botanist Jess Bunchek about growing vegetables in Antarctica – and outer space.


Jess started as a botanist and agronomist and, after completing her masters, worked as an astro-botanist at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where she researched space crop production and supported “Veggie” – a vegetable production chamber on the International Space Station.


While at NASA, she proposed a new collaboration with Germany's space agency, DLR, on the EDEN ISS greenhouse project in Antarctica. For this, Jess overwintered for 14 months at Germany's Neumayer Station III in Antarctica from late 2020 to early 2022, where she operated EDEN ISS and contributed to multiple areas of Antarctic research.


For more information about our guests and episode transcripts, click here

To support the work of the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, click here


Season 4 of A Voyage to Antarctica is made possible with support from Hurtigruten Expeditions.



Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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