Space Crop Production Systems

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MarsOasis​®

An Efficient Autonomously Controlled ​Martian Crop Production System​

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​NASA has selected Space Lab® for a 2018 Phase II STTR to investigate technologies for a Mars based plant growth chamber, MarsOasis®.  Space Lab® will be collaborating with the University of Colorado at Boulder.  The Phase II project will advance the current state-of-the-art plant growth chamber technologies to include an inflatable transparent dome, full canopy LED lighting, in situ CO2 resource utilization, and autonomous operation. 

​Please see the Abstract for more information.

Inflatables Testing

Materials Testing

MarsOasis® Concept.

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Building Upon NASA Research and Heritage Technology

From Ray Wheeler's paper Agriculture for Space: People and Places Paving the Way (2017):   

"NASA’s Biomass Production Chamber (BPC), which operated from 1988 to 2000 at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.  Crops tested included wheat (upper left), potato (upper right), lettuce (lower right), soybean (lower left), tomato, rice and radish (not shown).  All crops were grown using hydroponics (nutrient film technique) with higher pressure sodium and or metal halide lamps.  NASA’s BPC was one of the first working examples of a vertical agriculture system.  KSC researchers Neil Yorio and Lisa Ruffe are shown in the lower right panel."

NASA KSC's Biomass Production Chamber, or BPC | Photos Courtesy of NASA

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