LettuceOnMars

We won an award at the National Student Space Conference - Presented by Dr Matt Taylor who lead the ESA Rosetta mission!

The results of the competition are out: Congratulations to the winning project, Seed!

We made it to third place. Thank you all for the support and the questions, for sharing about our project and voting for us! Special thanks to the University of Southampton, UKSEDS, the BBC and the Spaceflight Society who strongly supported us through this process.

Over the last month we had a great time trying to illustrate the challenges of space travel to a larger public audience. Now we have to focus on exams ;) but we are looking forwards to more challenging space projects with our Spaceflight society, from hybrid rockets to teaching students about spaceflight. You can stay up to date with our activity by following us on www.susf.co.uk or by twitter at

University of Southampton Spaceflight Society Hello and welcome to the home of the University of Southampton Spaceflight Society (SUSF). We run an exciting amalgamation of space related projects such as high altitude balloons and rockets carrying both scientific and un-scientific payloads to the edge of space. Originally a Physics society outre…

Really great feature in the Guardian today!

Eight ways students changed the world in 2014 This year saw students sell apps to Apple, win a bid to grow lettuce on Mars, and raise over £30,000 for a homeless man

We are currently being featured in The Independent, The Mirror and even in the Daily Mail. Don't forget to vote for us now, only one day left!

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Plan to take lettuce to Mars could put life on red planet by 2018 Lettuce could be the first life to land on Mars if a team of students succeeds in their plan to grow salad on the planet in 2018.

We are live on Radio 5 Live Drive tonight at approx 4.55pm - Janki will be speaking on National Radio!

AMA is live!!

http://goo.gl/HGSo8w

We are a student team that will grow lettuce on Mars AUA! • /r/IAmA We're a student team planning to grow life on Mars. We've designed a greenhouse that could go to Mars and grow lettuce. We've submitted our...

We'll be holding an AMA on reddit tomorrow starting at 10AM GMT!
Will post the direct link tomorrow morning.

We got a Christmas present :)
A friend wrote and produced a song about !
Written, produced and performed by Lynette Frances
Copyright Lynette Frances Music 2014
www.lynettefrances.webs.com

We added a few photos:

LettuceOnMars Song We got a Christmas present! A friend wrote and produced a song about our project www.lettuceonmars.com for the 2018 Mars One lander :) Support our project by...

Merry Christmas everyone! Thanks to all our supporters, have nice holidays!

Don't forget to tell your family and friends about our project ;)
Greetings from Southampton,
your team

Louie Stowell based a Deus Ex Suburbia web comic on our project:

https://godsnextdoor.wordpress.com/2014/12/19/god-and-jesus-go-to-a-bar-and-talk-about-lettuce/

We took the lettuce sightseeing after our BBC World interview in London - guess where we went :)

We're on telly! This is BBC World news, live with Janki Shah, Suzanna Lucarotti, Mate Ravasz and a bunch of lettuce.

Don't forget to vote for us! Here's how: www.lettuceomnars.com

BBC World News, Live with #LettuceOnMars Three of our team members appeared on BBC global along with a bunch of lettuce. We talk about the Mars One university payload competition, and our entry: ...