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UH Hilo Students Win $50K NASA Challenge with Hawaii-Inspired Food System
The design uses hydroponics, aquaculture and orchards in a zero-waste system that won one of five national prizes.
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Hawaiian wisdom fuels students’ Mars breakthrough for NASA
HILO — Two University of Hawai‘i at Hilo seniors just beat out hundreds of global competitors, including corporate research teams, to win a $50,000 national NASA award by proving ancient Hawaiian farming holds the key to feeding astronauts on Mars.
·Hawaii, United States
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One aspect often underestimated in aerospace engineering is the psychological impact of the act of eating. A mission on Mars involves a flight of at least nine months to the shower, a stay of hundreds of days and another nine months to the return. For a long-term human mission to survive and succeed, astronauts must pass from the status of simple consumers of packages on Earth to that of active producers in an autonomous ecosystem.
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