NASA x Fairchild: Growing Beyond Earth

Growing Beyond Earth is a highly successful classroom-based citizen science research project operated in partnership with NASA. This classroom-based STEM program is a series of authentic plant experiments conducted by students using equipment similar to NASA’s Vegetable Production System. GBE evolved out of NASA’s efforts to find suitable crops for long term space missions. With experiments currently in hundreds of middle and high schools across the country, GBE is providing a steady stream of valuable data to NASA scientists who are developing technologies for growing food crops for long-duration missions into deep space.