Podcast appearances and mentions of gioia massa

In this episode, Dr. Gioia Massa, senior Life Sciences project scientist at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, outlines the systems and processes used for growing vegetables aboard the International Space Station. The technology could one day support astronauts on long-duration missions in deep space. What we learn can benefit agriculture on Earth as well.

The CHAPEA crew gives an update amid their one-year stay in a simulated Mars habit, and Gioia Massa discusses crop production on Mars. This is the fourth audio log of a monthly series.  HWHAP Episode 314.

A continuous source of nutritious food is essential for long-duration exploration missions, and the typical pre-packaged astronaut diet will need to be supplemented by fresh foods produced in space. Researchers at NASA have been testing a plant growth unit on the International Space Station known as Veggie and have successfully grown a variety of leafy greens. Veg-05, the next step in that work, focuses on growing red dwarf tomatoes! Today on the show, Beth is joined by NASA Life Sciences project scientist and VEG-05 principal investigator Dr. Gioia Massa. She and her team are testing tomatoes, looking at the impacts of light spectrum on how well the crop grows, how delicious and nutritious the tomatoes are, and the microbial activity on the fruit and plants! The Veg-05 experiment will help provide valuable data for future space exploration, and examines the overall effect of growing, tending, and eating crops on crew behavioral health. There's lots to learn in this episode of Casual Space Podcast with Dr. Gioia Massa!  Oh, and check out this competition for kids to create the next Veggie Mission patch! https://fairchildgarden.org/science-and-education/learn/the-fairchild-challenge/national-challenge-main-page-nasa-patch/ A great article from NASA highlighting the details regarding the various experiments launching to the International Space Station on the SpaceX CRS-26 mission: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/spacex-26-science-highlights/ About Gioia Massa – Project Scientist, Kennedy Space Center… in her own words: “When I was 12, I decided I wanted to grow plants in space.  It only took, well, a while to get there, but it was an interesting journey.  I have always liked plants – both my mother and grandmother taught me to love gardening.   As a kid, however, I was horse-crazy, and when I had the opportunity to take an agriculture class in 7th grade and join the horse judging team in FFA, I was thrilled.  Well, I was an awful judge of horses – I just picked the pretty ones with nice manners, and I had no sense of good form.  Happily, I also tried horticulture judging and plant identification, and I loved it.  I was lucky enough that my agriculture teacher was selected to participate in a workshop at KSC and EPCOT center called “energize the green machine”; it was all about NASA's research toward growing food in space.  He captured 40 hours of video on space plant growth and I sat mesmerized throughout.  I was hooked. And I persisted, doing hydroponic projects in high school (DeLand, FL) and college (Cornell), working in plant labs, participating in the Space Life Sciences Training Program at KSC (both as a student and as a counselor), going to graduate school (Penn State) to study plant responses to gravity, participating in a student shuttle flight experiment, doing a postdoc on bioregenerative food production (Purdue) in advanced life support systems, and spending way too much time in rooms with strange purple lights.  A few stubborn decades of gradual progress later, after fantastic mentors helped me at every level, I began at KSC, first as a NASA postdoctoral fellow and then as a NASA Project Scientist in ISS Ground Processing and Research.   My postdoctoral work at KSC focused on the Veggie plant growth system, and since joining NASA I have been leading the science team to test the Veggie hardware on ISS.   My research with Veggie and other systems focuses on addressing the questions of which plant production techniques and technologies will be effective at producing quality, tasty food to supplement packaged diets in the near term, and to play a larger role in bioregenerative life support in the long term.  Plants can be a source of food for the crew, and also can be involved in recycling the atmosphere and water processing.  Plants can also have psychological benefits for the crew.  But there are a number of challenges in microgravity and planetary habitats that need to be worked out before we can safely and efficiently produce fresh vegetables for the crew; those are what I research.  The behavior of fluids, gasses, and thermal gradients make growing plants in microgravity challenging.  Reducing the energy needs for electric lighting and increasing crop productivity are very important factors for long-duration growth, and testing emerging technologies can provide novel solutions.  Ensuring microbiologically safe food that also has high levels of specific nutrients and tastes good at the same time requires a lot of testing, time, and resources.  Since plants are so dependent on their environment, the number of potential variations is infinite, so narrowing of scope can also provide a challenge.   My research is designed to give residents at a habitat on Mars in the future a better quality of life in that extreme environment.  They will not only have fresh, nutritious food to eat, but they will also be able to enjoy the sight, smell, and taste of green plants.  Those plants will produce food for the crew, recycle their atmosphere, and possibly even help with cleaning their water.  My research will help to enable NASA's grand challenge of space colonization as humanity transitions from a planet-bound to a spacefaring civilization.  I am honored to be a part of the NASA team working toward this dream.”

A look at the technology and experiences behind growing live crops aboard the ISS, courtesy of NASA Project Scientists Dr. Gioia Massa and Matt Romeyn.

As humanity sets its sights on longer-term life in space, we're going to need ways to sustain ourselves. That's where plants come into play! Take a tour of Kennedy Space Center's lush Plant Processing Area with Ray Wheeler, Ralph Fritsche, and Gioia Massa - the scientists studying how to grow food in space!

As humanity sets its sights on longer-term life in space, we're going to need ways to sustain ourselves. That's where plants come into play! Take a tour of Kennedy Space Center's lush Plant Processing Area with Ray Wheeler, Ralph Fritsche, and Gioia Massa - the scientists studying how to grow food in space!

As humanity sets its sights on longer-term life in space, we're going to need ways to sustain ourselves. That's where plants come into play! Take a tour of Kennedy Space Center's lush Plant Processing Area with Ray Wheeler, Ralph Fritsche, and Gioia Massa - the scientists studying how to grow food in space!

As humanity sets its sights on longer-term life in space, we're going to need ways to sustain ourselves. That's where plants come into play! Take a tour of Kennedy Space Center's lush Plant Processing Area with Ray Wheeler, Ralph Fritsche, and Gioia Massa - the scientists studying how to grow food in space!

This post and podcast, and Two Maverix® Multimedia, are not, in any way, shape or form, affiliated with, nor endorsed by, NASA. (We just consider growing crops in space one of the coolest science applications we've seen!) (Image courtesy of NASA, and used with permission.) When most of us garden, we don't have to deal with zero gravity. Nor do we have to think about space dust--or sunsets every ninety minutes. (Image courtesy of NASA, and used with permission.) But these factors add up to interesting challenges for space scientists Dr. Gioia Massa and Matt Romeyn. As NASA Project Scientists at Kennedy Space Center, Matt and Gioia are involved in researching and developing ways to grow fresh crops aboard the International Space Station. Gioia, as we discussed in a 2018 episode, served as NASA's science team lead in developing the first fresh food production system for the ISS. This 2014 project culminated in the first edible crops aboard the ISS: red romaine lettuce, which the astronauts first had the opportunity to sample in 2015, according to NASA's blog. At the time of our first conversation, NASA's Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) had just been delivered to the ISS. Meanwhile, Matt, who began working at Kennedy Space Center in 2016, researches and builds hardware to provide additional food-production capabilities in space. In 2021, he served as principal investigator for NASA's Plant Habitat-04 experiment, which explored the possibility of growing chile peppers in space. As shown on NASA's blog, the experiment was a huge success. (Image courtesy of NASA, and used with permission.) The astronauts actually wound up making "space tacos" with the new, fresh addition to their onboard fare. (Image courtesy of NASA, and used with permission.) And Gioia, Matt and their teams continue innovating. Their work encompasses discovering new crops to grow aboard the International Space Station, as well as looking ahead to "space farming" possibilities for both the Moon and, possibly, a future Mars colony. Gioia and Matt talked about their recent experiences, offered a closer look at the process of growing crops aboard the ISS and shared a preview of what's next. On this edition of Over Coffee® we cover: What first inspired Matt to pursue space science as his profession; Some of the most exciting milestones Gioia has experienced in her food-production research and development of space crops since our 2018 conversation; The story of the first plant transplant in space, which occurred, as Gioia says, as a "happy accident"; Considerations involved, for Matt, when the ISS crew members called him for advice on the transplant experiment; The astronauts' psychological responses to the plants, growing aboard the International Space Station; A closer look at the crew's response to the first crop of chile peppers grown in space!; What it's like to monitor the plants aboard the APH (Advanced Plant Habitat) from Kennedy Space Center; An experiment that could ultimately allow astronauts to choose which crops they'll grow aboard the ISS, pulling from a "seed bank"; The current technology operating aboard the ISS, including "Veggie" and the additional growth chambers, to conduct experiments in producing fresh food: One of the coolest research findings Matt has had, with the "space crops", in the past year; Some of the effects of microgravity on plants; Crop-growing challenges involved, as NASA plans for the Artemis moon missions, and possibly for a mission to Mars; What's happening with another planned ISS crop: tomatoes! Some new technology which NASA recently sent to the ISS, for watering crops in space; Additional new experiments, which will go up to the International Space Station later this year; The Advanced Plant Habitat's record-breaking work with the chile peppers; What's been most fun for Matt and Gioia,

Our episode this week is with Dr. Gioia Massa, a Project Scientist at NASA Kennedy Space Centre! Gioia has worked at NASA for the past 10 years, improving the cultivation of crops in space for future missions. She talks to us about the branches of space life science research, the challenges of growing plants in space, and how she landed a sweet job at NASA! Episode transcript Resume Worded Support us on Patreon Rate us on Apple Podcasts Check out our Anchor webpage Email us at soyougotalifescidegree@gmail.com Music copyright notice: No Regrets (2015) - Royalty-Free Music by https://audiohub.com

Welcome Back to 321 Lift Off! Today we speak with Dr. Jamie Foster, Professor in Microbiology and Cell Science at the University of Florida.      Dr. Gioia Massa, NASA life science project scientist at Kennedy Space Center. We learn about the ISS and what experiments will be headed up to space! Dr. Foster and Dr. Massa discuss their history and backgrounds. We also learn how they teach the astronauts how to take care of their experiments while in space.

Botany experts Gioia Massa and Anna-Lisa Paul discuss how plants in space and the research being conducted on the International Space Station are key to the future of sustainable human space exploration. HWHAP Episode 172.

Botany experts Gioia Massa and Anna-Lisa Paul discuss how plants in space and the research being conducted on the International Space Station are key to the future of sustainable human space exploration. HWHAP Episode 172.

Botany experts Gioia Massa and Anna-Lisa Paul discuss how plants in space and the research being conducted on the International Space Station are key to the future of sustainable human space exploration. HWHAP Episode 172.

Botany experts Gioia Massa and Anna-Lisa Paul discuss how plants in space and the research being conducted on the International Space Station are key to the future of sustainable human space exploration. HWHAP Episode 172.

This is the fourth episode of our Plant Science Series and in this episode we are talking to Dr. Gioia Massa. On November 2nd, 2020 we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the International Space Station (ISS) and we had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Gioia Massa who is a NASA scientist at Kennedy Space Center in Florida working on food production for the International Space Station and future exploration endeavors. Gioia is researching ways to grow fresh food for astronauts and there is a lot to learn about in this episode about plant science, challenges with crop production for space and more. Links:Growing Plants in Space - https://www.nasa.gov/content/growing-plants-in-spaceNASA’s International Space Station 20th Anniversary page - https://www.nasa.gov/station20

This is the fourth episode of our Plant Science Series and in this episode we are talking to Dr. Gioia Massa. On November 2nd, 2020 we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the International Space Station (ISS) and we had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Gioia Massa who is a NASA scientist at Kennedy Space Center in Florida working on food production for the International Space Station and future exploration endeavors. Gioia is researching ways to grow fresh food for astronauts and there is a lot to learn about in this episode about plant science, challenges with crop production for space and more. Links: Growing Plants in Space - https://www.nasa.gov/content/growing-plants-in-space NASA's International Space Station 20th Anniversary page - https://www.nasa.gov/station20

Join Emma the Space Gardener as she explores gardening on Earth... and beyond! Emma's guest on this week's show is Dr Gioia Massa, a Project Scientist at the NASA Kennedy Space Center, working on the Veggie growing system on the International Space Station. Gioia talks about the challenges of growing plants in space, those blooming space zinnias, and when we might see astronauts eating their first space tomato!

On today's episode of United We Ag, I sit down with Dr, Gioia Massa and Matt Romeyn of the Kennedy Space Center. Gioia and Matt are plant scientists working on both the VEGGIE and Advanced Plant Habitat for astronauts aboard the International Space Station to use for growing fresh produce in space! We talk a little bit about the process of growing food in the zero gravity environment. The challenges, the obstacles and the great opportunities. Later in the show, we talk a little bit about how citizen scientists at your local schools can get involved in helping NASA research the future of farming in space.

How the $2 Trillion in Pandemic Relief Is Supposed to Help the Economy (0:31)Guest: Richard Evans, PhD, Associate Director and Senior Lecturer, Master's Program in Computational Social Science, University of ChicagoCongress has so far approved a little more than $2-trillion in stimulus and relief to deal with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, but will it be enough? How Much Do We Actually Know About Medical Marijuana? (18:02)Guest: Staci Gruber, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery Program at McLean Hospital.Marijuana use for medicinal purposes is now the norm in America – all but a few states allow it. And in 11 states, it's legal for adults to use marijuana recreationally – no doctor's note required. But we still know very little about how cannabis affects the body and brain. This is a case of policy outpacing science. Growing Lettuce (And Other Food) in Space (34:51)Guest: Gioia Massa, PhD, Plant Scientist, NASA Kennedy Space Center, Veggie Project Lead NASA is working on sending humans back to the moon and then onto Mars in the next decade.  Gioia Massa is working on making sure the astronauts who go on those long space missions have fresh produce in their diet. How to Protect Your Children From Accidental Poisoning (50:39)Guest: Sadiqa Kendi MD, Medical Director, Safe Kids DC and Children's National Safety Center at Children's National HospitalParents working at home all day with little kids underfoot is a tricky situation. It's impossible to keep a close eye on them at every moment. So these pandemic quarantines may boost the risk of kids getting into medicines. During normal times, a kid with accidental medicine poisoning shows up in an emergency room somewhere in America every ten minutes. Immune Booster Myths (1:06:54)Guest: Alice Knoedler, M.D., Fellow in the Division of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology, University of Virginia School of MedicineWe're all trying to stay healthy right now. Is there anything that can boost the immune system's ability to fight off infection? Quick fixes abound on the internet.  Movies to Help Kids Talk About Pandemic Fears (1:19:26)Guest: Kirsten Hawkes, ParentPreviews.comHow's the stress level in your home right now? Movies can be a great way for families to spark a conversation about feelings and coping with scary stuff, so Kirsten Hawkes of Parent Previews.com has a few recommendations for you today.

Richard Evans of Univ of Chicago on coronavirus and the economy. Staci Gruber of Harvard Medical School on cannabis. Gioia Massa of NASA on space lettuce. Sadiqa Kendi of Children’s National Hospital on medicine safety. Alice Knoedler of the Univ of Virginia School of Medicine on immune system myths. Kirsten Hawkes of ParentPreviews.com on children's movies that can help kids talk about pandemic fears.

Space-grown lettuce may sound like something from science-fiction, but astronauts on the International Space Station, or ISS, have been enjoying their leafy greens since mid 2015, thanks to NASA's Veggie plant growth system. Megan McGregor spoke to Gioia Massa, project scientist at Kennedy Space Centre, and Howard Griffiths from the University of Cambridge... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Space-grown lettuce may sound like something from science-fiction, but astronauts on the International Space Station, or ISS, have been enjoying their leafy greens since mid 2015, thanks to NASA's Veggie plant growth system. Megan McGregor spoke to Gioia Massa, project scientist at Kennedy Space Centre, and Howard Griffiths from the University of Cambridge... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

In the intro for this episode, we start with my thoughts on the close of 2019 and the start of 2020. There's a-lot to look forward to and reflect on. Boeing's CST-100 Starliner returns to Earth safely landing in White Sands base in New Mexico after an anomaly getting into orbit to dock with the International Space Station. I also share my thoughts on some lessons I've learned from this year, specifically perspective. How emotion can filter how we see reality. Then I intro the second part of our NASAsocial tour of the Veggie lab with Trent Smith and Dr. Gioia Massa

Due to a "sick" drive, Over Coffee® will be airing a rebroadcast this week.  As we approach Thanksgiving week, we hope you enjoy one of our most popular episodes of 2018. (Photo courtesy of NASA, and used with permission.) Fresh vegetables are something most of us take for granted. But to the astronauts aboard the International Space Station, they represent an innovative leap forward. NASA Kennedy Space Center Project Scientist Dr. Gioia Massa, serving as science team lead, developed the first-ever fresh food production system for the International Space Station in 2014.  The technology, called Veg-01, or "Veggie",  first allowed astronauts to have fresh lettuce in space in 2015, according to NASA's mission-pages blog. Dr. Massa's  specialties include Space Life Sciences, Controlled Environment Agriculture and Space Life Support.   Today, she and her team continue to research and develop additional systems to growing and harvesting fresh food aboard the ISS. Dr. Massa talked about the process of developing "Veggie", some of the challenges of growing crops in space, and the new technologies NASA has been developing, which will expand agricultural capabilities both on the ISS and on earth, in the future. On this edition of Over Coffee®, you will hear: How Dr. Massa first became interested in space agriculture; The experiences, working as team lead on "Veggie" which she enjoyed the most; How NASA teams determine the safety of fresh crops grown in space; What NASA scientists are currently doing, to establish space-crop safety standards; Some of the technologies and procedures that enable International Space Station astronauts to grow fresh crops; The goals of planned future new space agriculture technologies; What's currently growing on board the ISS; How a new experiment will allow scientists to further explore different types of plants' responses, to conditions in space; What NASA's discoveries in space agriculture might mean, for growing crops on Earth for future populations; One of Dr. Massa's favorite stories, about the astronauts' interactions with fresh crops grown aboard the ISS; A future goal for NASA's experiments with plant systems aboard the International Space Station.  

This week we're learning about botany and the colorful science of gardening. Author Ruth Kassinger joins us to discuss her book "A Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of the Way Plants Work." And we'll speak to NASA researcher Gioia Massa about her work to solve the technical challenges of gardening in space. 

(Image courtesy of NASA, and used with permission.) On board the International Space Station, conditions are proving fine for gardening.   And fresh food is now on the menu, for the astronauts. Dwarf wheat, zinnias and lettuce are among the crops the crew have grown successfully.  And after SpaceX's Dragon Cargo spacecraft arrived at the ISS on April 4, new technologies are now available, to facilitate the process of growing a garden in space. Dr. Gioia Massa is a Project Scientist at NASA Kennedy Space Center.  Her specialties include Space Life Sciences, Controlled Environment Agriculture and Space Life Support. And Dr. Massa served as NASA's science team lead, in developing the first-ever fresh food production system for the International Space Station in 2014.  Named Veg-01, or "Veggie", the technology ultimately allowed astronauts to first sample fresh lettuce in space in 2015, according to NASA's mission-pages blog. Today, Dr. Massa and her team continue to research and develop additional systems for growing and harvesting fresh food aboard the ISS. Dr. Massa talked about the process of developing "Veggie", some of the challenges of growing crops in space, and the new technologies NASA has been developing, which will expand agricultural capabilities both on the ISS and on earth, in the future. On this edition of Over Coffee®, you will hear: How Dr. Massa first became interested in space agriculture; The experiences, working as team lead on "Veggie" which she enjoyed the most; How NASA teams determine the safety of fresh crops grown in space; What NASA scientists are currently doing, to establish space-crop safety standards; Some of the technologies and procedures that enable International Space Station astronauts to grow fresh crops; The goals of planned future new space agriculture technologies; What's currently growing on board the ISS; How a new experiment will allow scientists to further explore different types of plants' responses, to conditions in space; What NASA's discoveries in space agriculture might mean, for growing crops on Earth for future populations; One of Dr. Massa's favorite stories, about the astronauts' interactions with fresh crops grown aboard the ISS; A future goal for NASA's experiments with plant systems aboard the International Space Station.    

Ask Me Another travels to Orlando! We talk to Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs about his own surprising career path. Plus, NASA scientists Gioia Massa and Melissa Jones dissect science in Hollywood films.

Ask Me Another travels to Orlando! We talk to Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs about his own surprising career path. Plus, NASA scientists Gioia Massa and Melissa Jones dissect science in Hollywood films.

This week we're learning about botany and the colorful science of gardening. Author Ruth Kassinger joins us to discuss her book "A Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of the Way Plants Work." And we'll speak to NASA researcher Gioia Massa about her work to solve the technical challenges of gardening in space. 

Kate talks to NASA plant scientists Gioia Massa and Bob Morrow about growing veggies in space.