GreenHab Report – February 23rd

Crew 222 GreenHab Report – 23/02/2020

GreenHab Officer : Bleuenn ROIRON

Environmental control : Ambient with door open

Average temperatures: 23°C

Hours of supplemental light: NA

Daily water usage for crops: 9 gallons

Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 Liters

Water in blue Tank: 80 gallons

Time(s) of watering crops: 2

Changes to crops: NA

Narrative:Today, after watering plants, I exposed watercress in gelatin
to UV or/and notes of music again. I did watered plants again
tonight but nothing special happened in the rest of the day.

Harvest: NA

Support/supplies needed: As I expected, today I had to use the blue tap
so i don’t know know if i’ll have enaf water in the blue tank to
water plants until the end of the simulation

Greenhab Report – February 22nd

Crew 222 GreenHab Report – 19/02/2020

GreenHab Officer: Bleuenn ROIRON

Environmental control: Ambient

Average temperatures: 22°C

Hours of supplemental light: NA

Daily water usage for crops: 10 gallons

Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 Liters

Water in blue Tank: 89 gallons

Time(s) of watering crops: 2

Changes to crops: NA

Narrative: Today after watering the plants, I exposed watercress in gelatin to UV or/and notes of music that we had prepared before the mission.

Today was not so sunny so I didn’t have to open the door. I watered the plants again tonight.

Harvest: NA

Support/supplies needed: Water flow rate seems to be less powerful than at the beginning so it seems that I won’t be able to use the first tap in a few days I guess.

GreenHab Report – February 21st

Crew 222 GreenHab Report – 21/02/2020

GreenHab Officer : Bleuenn ROIRON

Environmental control : Ambient with door open

Average temperatures: 21°C

Hours of supplemental light: NA

Daily water usage for crops: 9,5 gallons

Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 Liters

Water in blue Tank: 99 gallons

Time(s) of watering crops: 2

Changes to crops: NA

Narrative: Today, I has an EVA this morning so Marie, our journalist took care of the GreenHab and watered plants.
I put seeds in the gelatin i prepared yesterday, this time is is in petri boxes for our experience about UV and muscis.
Tonight i watered plants again and harvested some origan, sage, mint and some sun carrots.

Harvest: 2g sage, 2g mint, 5g origan, 60g carrots( 6 small carrots with leafs)

Support/supplies needed: N/A

GreenHab Report – February 20th

Crew 222 GreenHab Report – 20Feb2020

GreenHab Officer : Bleuenn ROIRON

Environmental control : Ambient with door open

Average temperatures: 20,7°C

Hours of supplemental light: NA

Daily water usage for crops: 9 gallons

Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 Liters

Water in blue Tank: 108,5 gallons

Time(s) of watering crops: 2

Changes to crops: NA

Narrative: Today, I started by watering plants and then I put seeds in the gelatin i prepared yesterday, but it was too hot in the greenhab so i had to put them in the science dome, thos plants will be compared to thoses that will

grow in the culture tower moss. Then I prepared gelatin for the experiment on plants, called music for plants that i’ll start tomorrow. Tonight i watered plants again and harvested some basil and chives to put on our tonight pizza.

Harvest: 6g basil, 5g chiver

Support/supplies needed:

GreenHab Report – February 19th

Crew 222 GreenHab Report – 19/02/2020

GreenHab Officer : Bleuenn ROIRON

Environmental control : Ambient with door open

Average temperatures: 22,6°C

Hours of supplemental light: NA

Daily water usage for crops: 9,5 gallons

Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 Liters

Water in blue Tank: 117,5 gallons

Time(s) of watering crops: 2

Changes to crops: NA

Narrative: Today, Since I was on EVA this morning, this is Marie, our
journalist that watered plants as I showed her yesterday and maked the
morning checks. After the lunch,
I started my experience of growing plants in gelatin to compare with
our culture tower. I went finally in the evening to watered a second
time the plants and took some
mint to prepare a tea to my crew this evening.

Harvest: 2g pineaple mint, 2g mint

Support/supplies needed: nothing to report

Greenhab Report – February 18th

Crew 222 GreenHab Report – 18/02/2020

GreenHab Officer : Bleuenn ROIRON

Environmental control : Ambient with door open

Average temperatures: 20°C

Hours of supplemental light: NA

Daily water usage for crops: 11,6 gallons

Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 2 Liters

Water in blue Tank: 127 gallons

Time(s) of watering crops: 2

Changes to crops: NA

Narrative: Today, I watered plants after being the habcom of the second EVA. After the lunch, I went to take care of the spirulina and separated some plants( salad and carrots) to let them grow more. Then I helped Nina, our crew scientist, to plant in moss her seeds that we will next deplace in the
culture tower that was installed today in the science dome. I went finally in the evening to watered a second time the plants and took some sage for our meal.

Harvest: 4g of sage

Support/supplies needed:

Greenhab Report – February 17th

Crew 222 GreenHab Report – 16/02/2020

GreenHab Officer : Bleuenn ROIRON

Environmental control : Ambient with door open

Average temperatures: 22°C

Hours of supplemental light: NA

Daily water usage for crops: 11,6 Gallons

Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 5 gallons

Water in blue Tank: 138,4 gallons

Time(s) of watering crops: 2

Changes to crops: NA

Narrative: Today, I watered plants before my first EVA and then asked to our journalist to take care of the greenhab,
This afternoon I went there to start my spiruline experiment, first i prepared the aquariums with the right components
and then I looked after plants. Nina, our crew scientist planted her plants(swiss chard, raddish, spinach, peas) that will be next planted in our culture
tower and we planted our first flower(zinnia) to add some colors in our simulation! Finally, tonight after having watered plants again I did injected spirulina in
the aquariums and my first experiment have started. I also harvested some aromatic herbs to cook tonight and make
our meals be more tasty!

Harvest: 5g lemon balm/ 4g basil/ 5g chives

Support/supplies needed: don’t have the real amount of water in the blue tank since i don’t know the real amount
that were in this tank at the beginning.

Greenhab Report – February 16th

Crew 222 GreenHab Report – 16/02/2020

GreenHab Officer: Bleuenn ROIRON

Today, Greenhab was operated by the station director

Environmental control: NA

Average temperatures: NA

Hours of supplemental light: NA

Daily water usage for crops: NA

Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0

Water in blue Tank: 150 Gallons

Time(s) of watering crops: 2

Changes to crops: Tomato plants were separated in different pots

Narrative: Today, Greenhab was operated by the station director

Harvest: 200g of spinach

Support/supplies needed: more water in the blue tank

GreenHab Report – February 15th

Crew 221 GreenHab Report 15FEB2020

GreenHab Officer: Jessica Todd

Environmental control: Heating. GreenHab door shade cloth (40%) (30%) on. Door opened today from 10:30 am to 3:48 pm.

Average temperatures: 18.25°C

Hours of supplemental light: 19:30 to 00:00

Daily water usage for crops: 16.4 gallons

Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 0 gallon

Water in Blue Tank: empty (using static tank), being refilled tomorrow

Time(s) of watering for crops: 2

Changes to crops: The cucumber plant has a new cucumber, ready for harvesting in a few days. Harvested all the spinach chard, rocket and spinach from the grey pot by the door and reseeded. Harvested all icicle radish and reseeded with fresh radish. Should sprout in the next 2-3 weeks.

Narrative: This is my last report as GreenHab officer for Crew 221. It’s been a wonderful experience being entrusted with the care of these plants for the last two weeks. I don’t consider myself much of a gardener, but I’ve developed a real love for watching plants grow and harvesting my own greens from a garden I’ve helped to keep alive in the harsh environment of Mars! In preparation for the arrival of crew 222, today was GreenHab clean up! The whole GreenHab was swept and cleaned, all plants watered, and the remnants of our mungbeans and corn experiments packed up. Shannon came by and we discussed some final harvesting, so for the next few hours I harvested a huge pot of greens and a planter of radishes, and replanted them all. I went through and relabeled a few of the pots, including the chamomile and mint I planted a few days ago (enjoy some lovely fresh brew tea Crew 222!). This evening it was time for my final watering of the GreenHab. I introduced Crew 222’s GreenHab Officer Bleuenn to the ways of the GreenHab and tried to impart as much Mark Watney knowledge as I could. I hope she finds the job as rewarding as I have! Good luck my little Martian botany friends, you’re in safe hands xx

Harvest: 60g chard, 12g rocket, 26g radish greens.

Support/supplies needed: NA

Other Notes: The bottom row of pots on the central shelves behind the benches have not sprouted in two weeks and I can’t find any evidence of roots/shoots/seeds. I cleaned out the pots, removed the labls, and left the soil there for replanting. The GreenHab tank was empty this morning, so on Shannon’s instructions we used water from the tap outside the GreenHab that is fed by the static tank. Crew 222 started refilling the GreenHab tank today so hopefully tomorrow they will start their sim with a full 300 gallon tank.

GreenHab Report – February 14th

Crew 221 GreenHab Report 14FEB2020

GreenHab Officer: Jessica Todd

Environmental control: Heating. GreenHab door shade cloth (40%) (30%) on. Door opened today from 10:14 pm to 2:22 pm.

Average temperatures: 19.25°C

Hours of supplemental light: 19:30 to 00:00

Daily water usage for crops: 8.45 gallons

Daily water usage for research and/or other purposes: 1.32 gallon

Water in Blue Tank: 142.5 gallons

Time(s) of watering for crops: 1

Changes to crops: We harvested our corn today!

Narrative: Today was our last day in sim and my last official mission day as the GreenHab officer so it was time to see how our crops had done! Sadly our mungbeans have still not sprouted, but our corn grew even better than we expected! Amazingly, we got between 5 and 7 g of corn grown from Martian or Martian/Earth soil, and 86g of corn grown in Earth soil in just over a week! So a lesson for Mark Watney, next time grow corn, not potatoes!

Harvest: 7g spinach chard, 9g wild rocket, 2g corriander.

Support/supplies needed: NA

Other Notes: Same as yesterday: Can I clarify; the tap I can use is the big antique looking one at the tunnel entrance to the GreenHab with the big orange tape that says “do not use”? Also, Shannon, you would like me to pick all the plants in the two tier grey pot by the door (i.e. the chard, spinach and rocket on the top, and the sprouting spinach on the bottom) or just the top pot?

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