X-Hab Student Project Selected for NASA Innovation Challenge

The undergraduate project known as “Deployable Greenhouse for Food Production” (Advisor: Senior Instructor Joe Tanner) was selected for the 2015 Exploration Habitat Academic Innovation Challenge, one of only five  projects selected nationally. “This is the fifth year of the X-Hab Academic Innovation Challenge, and we continue to be impressed by the innovative university proposals to advance capabilities for spaceflight," said Tracy Gill, NASA lead for the X-Hab Challenge. "We look forward to lending our experience to the teams, to learning from their fresh approaches and to guiding the efforts through the systems engineering process."

The challenge is a university-level participatory exploration effort designed to encourage studies in spaceflight-related disciplines. The challenge encourages multidisciplinary approaches and strengthens partnerships between NASA, academia and industry. This design challenge requires undergraduate students to explore NASA's work on development of deep space habitats while also helping the agency gather new ideas to complement its current research and development. 

Congratulations, Joe and students!