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Spinoff story

Lunar Gardening Tech Now Grows Ingredients for Health, Beauty Products

A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.

About this technology

Overview

Barbara Belvisi founded Interstellar Lab, whose U.S. office is in Merritt Island, Florida, while consulting with experts at Ames Research Center. Her early designs became the Earth-based BioPod for precision agriculture before going on to inform NuCLEUS, in-space farming tech that won NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge.