Plants in Space Student Research Project on the Space Station

You and your students can participate in an exciting investigation taking place in space and on Earth. The Plants in Space project will examine plant-root growth in microgravity. You and your students can grow ground-based control plants in your classroom, download hourly photographs from the International Space Station and design your own experiments using the data from space. The live experiments began on Sept. 19, 2011. However, all images will be archived on this site, so you can conduct your investigation whenever, and as often, as you like.

To learn more and register for the free teacher guide, visit http://www.bioedonline.org/space/STS_Mission_134P.cfm.

Plants in Space is a collaboration of NASA with the National Space Biomedical Research Foundation, BioServe Space Technologies and the Center for Educational Outreach at Baylor College of Medicine. Additional support comes from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Houston Endowment Inc.

Questions about the Plants in Space module should be directed to Greg Vogt at vogt@bcm.edu.