Advance Placement Chemistry Training for Junior Astronauts working at the Barboza Space Center  Feature StoryTyler Irving Just over a year ago, the biggest Mars space exploration vehicle, or rover, yet built was gently lowered from a rocket-powered ‘sky crane’ onto the surface of the red planet. Known to the public as Curiosity, the rover’s proper name […]

IS THERE ENOUGH LIGHT ON MARS TO GROW PLANTS? The Barboza Space Center is working with a scientist that has lived on Devon Island.  We are exploring growing food in California and Cabo Verde. Above Image: The surface of Devon Island, Nunavut, resembles that of Mars © Source: Dr. Thomas Graham, University of Guelph. Astronauts traveling to Mars […]