Date & time
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
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Why growing vegetables in space matters
A journey from entrepreneurship to ‘out of this world’ agriculture
Speaker(s)
Ed Rosenthal, BA 74, founder of Florikan ESA and member of the Space Technology Hall of Fame
Organization
University Advancement
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Where
John Molson Building
1450 Guy
Concordia Conference Centre, 9th Floor
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Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Join Concordia graduate, entrepreneur and inventor Ed Rosenthal, BA 74 — founder of Florikan ESA and a member of the Space Technology Hall of Fame — as he describes his entrepreneurial journey in agriculture and how NASA uses his patented controlled-release fertilizer to develop reliable plant and food production systems on the International Space Station.
Can’t join us in person? Join us online for the lecture livestream.
Rosenthal — pictured here with Gioia Massa, project scientist at NASA Kennedy Space Center, and Betty Rosenthal — “saved NASA years of research.”