Challenge 5: Packing up for the Moon

You will work in a team to design and build a model plant growth chamber able to provide a growing area of one square meter yet only having a delivery volume of 0.1 cubic meters or less. The model should show how the plant growth chamber deploys, or opens, from its delivery configuration to its growing configuration once it is on the surface of the moon, and may expand to any volume desired. It must be a separate, independent structure from the lunar station; however, placement and access to the chamber must make it possible for astronauts to tend to and harvest crops without venturing out onto the lunar surface. The chamber must have systems that provide light, temperature control, water, nutrient delivery, and power. It may link to the lunar station to get power. The materials used to construct the Plant Growth Chamber must fall within the budget constraints for materials established by the facilitator.