ALEPH Mission - Micropod

In this episode, we speak to Jeff Xu from www.micropod.com.au about the ALEPH Mission: www.lunaria.one/aleph/ 

The Australian Lunar Experiment Promoting Horticulture (or ALEPH) mission, which will involve a number of firsts in space travel history, will place a carefully selected set of seeds and plants on the Moon.

Once on the lunar surface, we aim to show plant growth within the first 3 days of landing. The motivation for such a mission comes from humanity’s passion to explore and see life thrive in barren landscapes. We see the ALEPH payload as the first step towards our eventual goal of providing plants for food, medicine, oxygen production and general wellbeing for future astronauts living on the Moon and beyond.

One Giant Leap Australia is part of this incredible consortium and is providing a free workshop for students to learn about this initiative. We are looking for 32 young space explorers between the ages of 11 to 14 to participate. This event will be held at the RMIT Bundoona Campus on the 10th and 11th of May 2025. 

This free one day workshop includes:

• Learning about careers in space
• Talking to space / engineering experts
• ALEPH Mission Challenges
• Take home growing kits

…..and much more! Applications are open now and close on the 24th of April at 10pm AEST Apply here(a button with a link- https://forms.gle/u9shPVwmwCj6N7EG7 )