Ready to Begin?
Download your Grow for Launch Handbook to get started with your plant growth experiment. You’ll learn how to build your own bottle hydroponic system and test how different growing conditions affect plant health, flavour, and growth just like our scientists preparing for the missions Mars.
Grow For Launch Handbook
Looking for more space inspiration? Don’t miss our Space Food & Farming Resource Booklet! It’s packed with fun facts about the Artemis Program, how astronauts eat in space, and what it takes to grow food on the Moon and Mars.
Space Food & Farming Booklet
Share Your Results
Once your experiment is complete, we want to see what you discovered! Submit your data and photos right here on the website. Your findings help us imagine how future astronauts might grow food far from Earth.
Submit your Data
Live Events
Plants For Space is also running a handful of events at our local nodes during National Science Week. Keep an eye out for this item, as we will be updating as events are released!
Western Australia
- Kings Park School Events, August 11 and 12 (primary schools)
- The University of WA School Events (high schools)
South Australia
- Tuesday August 5, 'Plants in Space' in collaboration with the Australian Space Discovery Centre and the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium
- August 14 - 16: 'Science in the Outback Pub'
Victoria
- Scienceworks General Public Events, August 9 and 10
- "Alpacas in Space" with Matt Cosgrove at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House
