LettuceOnMars

02/03/2015

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

05/01/2015

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

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…

31/12/2014

Really great feature in the Guardian today!

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

30/12/2014

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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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.

30/12/2014

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

29/12/2014

AMA is live!!

http://goo.gl/HGSo8w

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...

28/12/2014

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

26/12/2014

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:

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...

25/12/2014

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

23/12/2014

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/

21/12/2014

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

21/12/2014

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

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: ...