Green Moon Project arose in September 2016 from the curiosity of some young university students from Málaga (Spain) who wanted to see how the germination of a seed and subsequent growth of the plant stem under the effects of lunar gravity would be. The Green Moon Project team expected that at the same time interval, the plant on the Moon would grow much faster than on Earth because the gravity there is six times less than here on Earth. This was what the experiment wanted to test. For this reason, they presented their own capsule design,  a robotic moon germinator, to the competition organised by Team Indus within the Google Lunar X Prize. Green Moon Project was a multidisciplinary team with a clear astrobiological component composed of two engineers and a biologist. The project participated with another 3,400 and was selected as the only Spanish team that reached the international classification of 15 finalist projects in Bangalore (India) on March 15th, 2017.

Since then and to date, Green Moon Project has been evolving and is today a platform composed of multiple Spanish researchers capable of providing a consistent response in astrobiological and spatial topics. When the news jumped into the world that China had managed to plant the first plant on the Moon in January 2019 and due to the similarity with the capsule that Green Moon Project had developed and presented in India, Green Moon Project contacted the Chinese team. Since then, multiple conversations have been going on until Green Moon Project was invited to the University of Chongqing (China) and then they visited us in Madrid and Lanzarote (Spain) in 2019. We agreed to cooperate and that is what we are doing.

From now on, work will be done so that Green Moon Project will have its place in future  space missions as a specialist in space agriculture for future crops to provide with plants, vegetables, food and fresh air the future humans that will live outside Earth. 

Green Moon Project will be there.

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