Science on Tap–Madison

How can you grow enough food for a trip to Mars? Could you plant crops in the Martian soil to survive once you are there? Could we terraform Mars to make it habitable or will we always be living inside some kind of Martian base? What happens to human biology once you leave the safety of the Earth’s protection? Come hear UW professor Simon Gilroy — whose own plant experiments recently returned from the International Space Station — talk about how we can develop agriculture in space.