August 30, 2024 Like what you see? Want to join the Space Lab® team? Positions have opened! August 2, 2024 NASA awarded Space Lab® a Phase II SBIR on “EcoMine – Bioregenerative Mineral Mining from Lunar Regolith”. The team includes Principal Investigator Pamela Flores, Systems Engineer Christine Escobar, Electrical Engineer Adam Escobar, Mechanical Engineer Madison Jones. Check out the Press Release HERE.
NASA awarded Space Lab® a STTR Phase I on “SOSHA – Sensor Optimization for Space Habitat Awareness”. The team includes Principal Investigator Christine Escobar, and University of Colorado at Boulder (Dr. James Nabity).
NASA awarded Space Lab® a SBIR Phase I on “An Efficient Freeze Tolerant Radiator for Single-Phase Active Thermal Control Systems”. The team includes Principal Investigator Adam Escobar, Systems Engineer Christine Escobar, Mechanical Engineer Madison Jones, and University of Colorado at Boulder (Dr. James Nabity). Check back soon for links to these awards.
June 7, 2024 NASA awarded Space Lab® a Phase I for research and development of the "ECOMINE KREEP Bioregenerative Rare Earth Element Mining from Lunar Mare Regolith" project under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The team includes Principal Investigator Christine Escobar, Principal Engineer Adam Escobar, Mechanical Engineer Madison Jones, Post Doctoral Research Assistant Pamela Flores, and Colorado School of Mines (Dr. Jaeheon Lee). Check back soon for a link to this award. March 26, 2024 NASA awarded Space Lab® one of the three investigations under the Artemis III Deployed Instruments (A3DI) for the "LEAF β - Lunar Effects on Agricultural Flora Beta". LEAF β involves a standalone payload on the surface of the Moon that will be the first experiment to observe plant photosynthesis, growth, and stress responses to space radiation and partial gravity. The LEAF team includes Principal Investigator Christine Escobar, Space Lab CEO Adam Escobar, Space Lab Mechanical Engineer Madison Jones, and space biologists from NASA Kennedy Space Center (Dr. Aubrie O’Rourke, Dr. Gioia Massa, and Dr. Raymond Wheeler), University of Colorado at Boulder (Dr. Barbara Demmig-Adams), Purdue University (Dr. Marshall Porterfield), USDA (Dr. Gayle Volk), La Trobe University (Dr. Mathew Lewsey), and University of Adelaide (Dr. Jenny Mortimer).
December 21, 2023 Space Lab® is one of ten small businesses awarded a NASA SBIR Ignite Phase I on "EcoMine – Bioregenerative Mineral Mining from Lunar Regolith". See the NASA Press Release.
October 20, 2021 Space Lab® Café has been selected as a Phase I award winner for NASA's Deep Space Food Challenge! Learn more about Space Lab Café and the winners of the Deep Space Food Challenge. Read the full Press Release.
September 22, 2021 Space Lab® Vice President Christine Escobar featured along with other inspirational, innovative women entrepreneurs in the space sector in the first edition of Our Giant Leap Magazine.
March 1, 2021 Space Lab's µG-Lilypond™ and other vertical farming technologies featured on Episode 5 of The Tomorrow Farm podcast with host Vonnie Lea.
February 17, 2021 Space Lab® is featured in Vertical Farm Daily discussing our novel crop production systems and the challenges of growing plants in space. Read the full article here.
January 7, 2021 In an interview with Filling-space.com, Space Lab®Vice President Christine Escobar talks about some of our current projects as well as what inspired her to get involved with sustainable habitation in space. Learn more about her story here.
November 9, 2020 Space Lab®Vice President Christine Escobar discusses our work with plants in space on the most recent episode of the Gardeners of the Galaxy podcast. Learn about the development of our µg-Lilypond™ crop production system, why we think duckweed is space's next super crop, and what plant Chris would take with her to space!
October 13, 2020 Today we celebrate a successful NS-13 mission, the seventh successful flight for Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket. Space Lab®is honored to be one of 12 payloads that had the opportunity to test research and technology aboard this flight.
If you missed the launch, you can replay Blue Origin's webcast here. Space Lab® and other payloads are discussed starting at 10:36.
October 12, 2020 Launch Update: Blue Origin's NS-13 mission is scheduled to launch Tuesday, October 13 at 8:35 AM CDT / 13:35 UTC. Watch the live webcast starting at T-30 minutes.
October 9, 2020 Learn more about Space Lab's MarsOasis™ project and other small business partnerships in the USA Today NASA Special Edition!
November 30, 2018 Space Lab® will work with the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department (EBIO) at CU Boulder for the project "Co-optimization of Duckweed Biomass, Nutritional Quality, and Input-Use Efficiency". This work is under the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) Biomedical Research Advances for Space Health (BRASH).
August 30, 2018 NASA awarded Space Lab® a sub-orbital flight opportunity aboard the Blue Origin New Shepard! This flight opportunity is provided under the Space Technology Research, Development, Demonstration, and Infusion-2018 (SpaceTech-REDDI-2018) solicitation. The research is titled Microgravity Investigation for Thin Film Hydroponics, which will investigate a new form of passive nutrient and water delivery for plants in space.
Nov. 8, 2017 Space Lab®will be presenting two talks at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference 2017 (NSRC-2017) in Broomfield, CO on Wednesday, December 20th, 2017, for the following topics: 1) "The Next Step for High Data Rate Communications for Sounding Rockets and Balloons" Abstract | Presentation 2) "Investigating Reentry Plasmas using Sounding Rockets" Abstract | Presentation Space Lab will also have an Exhibit booth. Stop on by and chat with the Space Lab crew. Enter for a chance to win a signed copy of Scott Kelly's book: "Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery".
Oct. 11, 2017 Space Lab®presented at the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research 2017 Meeting in Seattle, WA at 10:00 am PST on Saturday, October 28th, 2017, for the following topic: "Duckweed: A Tiny Aquatic Plant with Enormous Potential for Bioregenerative Life Support Systems". Presentation Download
July 23, 2017 Space Lab® presented at the 47th International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES) in Charleston, SC on Thursday, July 20, 2017, for the following topic: "Duckweed: A Tiny Aquatic Plant with Enormous Potential for Bioregenerative Life Support Systems" Presentation Download Paper Download
May 22, 2017 Space Lab® received the Innovation Corps (I-Corp) grant through NASA's pilot program, which accelerates small business product commercialization.
