Episodes
Episodes
Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
Space Science with Marshall Porterfield (GotG57)
Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
In this episode, Emma the Space Gardener talks with Marshall Porterfield, Professor of Biological Engineering & Space Biophysics at Purdue University, who offers up some highlights from his long career in space science.
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Thursday Oct 05, 2023
The First Plants on the Space Shuttle (GotG56)
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
In the summer of 1863, a world-famous English botanist was pondering why the shoots of climbing plants twirl around as they grow. In this episode, join Emma the Space Gardener as she explores the fascinating world of plant movement, and what that has to do with the first plants that ever flew on NASA's space shuttle.
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Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Tree! (It’s the Magic Number) aka GotG55
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Gardeners of the Galaxy is three years old! To celebrate, Emma the Space Gardener has been delving into the archives, digging deeper into three related astrobotany stories from days gone by, which all have something to do with trees.
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Tuesday Jul 11, 2023
Formidable Ferns with Emily Sessa (GotG54)
Tuesday Jul 11, 2023
Tuesday Jul 11, 2023
It's time for another exciting episode, and in this one Emma the Space Gardener talks with Dr Emily Sessa, the director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden. Now Emily's job might just be one of the coolest in the Universe, but she has also recently been working on some NASA-funded research that could tell us a lot about the history of life on planet Earth, but also give us some hints about how to live well on other planets.
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Monday May 29, 2023
Millets in Space (GotG53)
Monday May 29, 2023
Monday May 29, 2023
As 2023 is the International Year of Millets, Emma the Space Gardener explores just exactly what millets are, whether we'll ever see them growing in space, and why the International Atomic Energy Authority and the FAO just sent millet seeds into space.
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Monday Apr 10, 2023
Duckweed in Space with Jenny Mortimer (GotG52)
Monday Apr 10, 2023
Monday Apr 10, 2023
In this episode, Emma the Space Gardener talks with Dr Jenny Mortimer from the University of Adelaide, one of the scientists involved with the new Plants for Space (P4S) project. Jenny currently has a bit of an obsession with duckweed, a plant with superpowers that could be right at home in space!
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Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Roses in Space (GotG51)
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
It's Valentine's Day on Earth, and love is definitely in the recycled air in the Orbital Garden! Join Emma the Space Gardener as she explores the history of roses in space, and an art project that imagines a future for roses on Mars.
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Friday Feb 03, 2023
Marigolds on Moon Rocks (teaser)
Friday Feb 03, 2023
Friday Feb 03, 2023
In this teaser episodes, join Emma the Space Gardener for a trip into the astrobotany archives. In 2006, researchers published their work attempting to grow marigolds on simulated lunar regolith. But there's more to it than that....
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Plants. In Space.
The International Space Station has been continuously inhabited for more than 20 years, but the astronauts that live there have only grown a few mouthfuls of food. As we make the move into deep space, to the Moon, and on to Mars, we need to learn how to grow plants in space, and that's what Gardeners of the Galaxy is all about.