SPACE2 Tackles In-Space and Off-World Farming
Yufeng Ge, left, and Santosh Pitla inspect the Flexible Robot, or Flex-Ro, which is outfitted with sensors that collect data and help the vehicle avoid obstacles.
Image credit: UNL.
For humans to survive on long space voyages and settle on other planets, they need to be able to grow their own food. To figure out how to farm in non-Earth environments, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Biological Systems Engineering professors Santosh Pitla and Yufeng Ge have established the Consortium of Space, Policy, Agriculture, Climate and Extreme Environment — SPACE2, for short.
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