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Tomorrow morning, Monday, October 13, we will embark on a mission like none other at SAM--we will engage in the mission we envisioned nearly five years ago when Trent and I first put orbital sander to rusted metal. At 10:00 am SAM team member Matthias Beach will enter the Space Analog for the Moon & Mars [...]
EXPERIMENT #4 Seeds prepping – September 2th Seeds sowing - September 3th Seedlings Transplant - September 22nd CO2 injection and Experiment Start - September 23rd Matthias Ingress - October 13th Plants harvest and kill - October 20th WBA Ends - October 26th TM cleaning and prep - October 27th to October 30th This experiment coincides with [...]
This spring brought us to the close of four years of design, development, and construction of a unique, world-class, hermetically sealed research facility for bioregeneration (air revitalization with plants) for long-duration human space exploration. SAM is now actively hosting what will be the first of many years of experiments in which we grow a specific species [...]
EXPERIMENT #3 Seeds prepping – August 3rd Seeds sowing – August 4th Seedlings Transplant - August 18th CO2 injection and Experiment Start – August 19th Plants harvest and kill - September 16th TM cleaning and prep - September 16th to September 22nd
EXPERIMENT #2 Seeds prepping – July 2nd Seeds sowing - July 3rd Seedlings Transplant - July 17th CO2 injection and Experiment Start – July 18th Plants harvest and kill - August 15th TM cleaning and prep - August 15th to August 17th
The following was written by University of Arizona graduate student Atila Meszaros, and lead researcher on Bioregeneration experiments at SAM. Any changes from the original body of text are in [brackets]. We are reaching the end of the second week of our first peas-experiment, still tweaking here and there, but learning pretty much every day. We [...]
EXPERIMENT #1 Seeds prepping – May 28th Seeds sowing - May 29th Seedlings Transplant - June 12th CO2 injection and Experiment Start – June 13th Plants harvest and kill - July 11th TM cleaning and prep - July 11th to July 16th
Today, Monday, October 27, at 10:50 am, SAM team member Matthias Beach exited the sealed SAM vessel following a two weeks, solo stay. He was welcomed by Dr. Linda Leigh, one of the original eight Biosphere 2 crew members from the 1991-93 sealed experiment, News Channel 13 (KOLD), a University of Arizona documentary film and reporting [...]