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\h        Narrator: Astronauts may have fresh fruits and vegetables during future missions,

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\h        thanks to the 2013 International Space Apps Challenge.

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\h        Space enthusiasts with diverse backgrounds from Kennedy Space Center and the general public

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\h        converged at the Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex and around the world.

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\h        They gathered on April 20 and 21 to develop and pitch their ideas to NASA.

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\h        Kennedy's teams brainstormed ideas and talked with NASA subject matter experts to

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\h        solve challenges relevant to improving life on Earth and in space.

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\h        Kennedy Space Center is the first-ever NASA center to host the challenge.

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\h        Caley Burke, Kennedy Space Apps Lead: Kennedy Space Center will be reviewing the

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\h        solutions to all the challenges and all of the solutions that were meant for the KSC challenges.

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\h        We want the whole world looking at these challenges and coming up with interesting solutions.

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\h        Narrator: Worldwide, more than 9,000 people and 484 organizations competed in 83 cities across 44 countries,

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\h        as well as online and presented their ideas to panels of technical and non-technical judges.

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\h        David Thorpe, Subject Matter Expert, CPDD: We're here in the Center for Space Education working for the

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\h        KSC Space Apps Challenge for the weekend. We've been working with Envision KSC 2040 all weekend.

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\h        There's been a lot of great brainstorming, a     
    lot of creative ideas.

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\h        Narrator: The winning team from Kennedy presented their idea for using a space-based greenhouse

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\h        as a stop off point to gather fresh food to sustain them during their space voyage.

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\h        Jamie Szafran, GSDO: Today my team worked on the deployable greenhouse project.

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\h        We designed and did a presentation on a greenhouse for astronauts traveling to the moon,

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\h        Mars, or near-Earth objects to collect fresh produce in space.