plant

PLANT is a concept developed in collaboration with experts and astronauts from NASA at Johnson Space Center in Houton. It enables the astronauts to grow food on long duration space flights in a clean, easy and safe way. By Mirko Ihrig teamwork with Piotr Szpryngwald.

The design consist of three elements: The pillow, which contains the seed and hydroponic media. The watering device, that is used to puncture and activate the pillow at the same time. And as well the implementation of growing chambers into the spaceship. It indicates the harvesting cycle and gives the astronauts a feedback about elapsed time far away from earth.