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He was the first to grow plants in lunar soil. Now, FLORIDA professor Rob Ferl is flying aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket to personally conduct an experiment to study how plants fare in space. #Space #BlueOrigin #PlantsinSpace

I just sent a congratulatory email to Rob Ferl upon becoming an #astronaut on #NS26 and but I got an understated and very cool automated response instead: "Greetings. I am away from the office with very limited connectivity. Please understand if there is significant delay in my

We just completed our eighth human spaceflight and the 26th flight for the New Shepard program. Our #NS26 crew included: Nicolina Elrick, Rob Ferl, Eugene Grin, Dr. Eiman Jahangir, Karsen Kitchen, and Ephraim Rabin. Thank you, astronauts! Learn more: bit.ly/3ymB5Rk

Congrats to Blue Origin on its #NS26 mission and to the NASA-funded researchers who acquired valuable data in flight! Helping researchers leverage commercial suborbital flight testing to advance space tech is critical to meet our future exploration goals.

History witnessed ✅ Shoutout to #GatorNation for packing the UF Reitz Union!

Congratulations Blue Origin and FLORIDA 🌱scientists Rob Ferl and Anna-Lisa Paul for taking another step towards accelerating the pace of research in space!

One epic journey for sure- thanks for all the support that FLORIDA UF IFAS Solutions University of Florida Research University of Florida News UF Astraeus Space Institute have provided along the way! Go Gators!🐊

We're not crying, you're crying! ✨😭💙 Vaishnavi Persad, of the SYBORGS lab, under Dr. Amor Menezes, is sending research samples to the International Space Station this fall via a SpaceX mission! She added her family’s names to the sample tubes so they can travel to space & back

Squid Game? Microbiology and cell science professor at UF IFAS Solutions Jamie Foster and her Space Life Sciences Lab members research a bobtail squid from Hawaii and how they could help astronauts stay healthy in space.

This #TechTuesday, we spotlight Dr. Rob Ferl, of the @ufastraeus, pioneering space biology research. His team studies how organisms adapt to space conditions, analyzing samples from the Blue Origin mission. Stay tuned for more on FLORIDA’s innovations! ✨ 🔗: youtu.be/ur3nncD_BPE

Today UF Microbiology's Dr. Foster will be giving a public talk First Magnitude at 5:30! Come out an learn about Squids in Space and enjoy this wonderful fall day! Great chance to chat with other Astraeus faculty from UF College of Health & Human Performance UF MAE UF IFAS Solutions UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Join us today at 5:30 FLORIDA Malachowsky Hall to hear from veteran Astronaut John Grunsfeld's presentation on the Hubble and Search for Life in the Cosmos. Open to all!

If you are on UF campus come check out this talk!

.FLORIDA #AIDays program with a panel of Astraeus faculty talking about #AI in Space. Hosted by Dr Seidler (UF College of Health & Human Performance) w/ Dr Du (UF MAE), Dr Oweiss (University of Florida Department of Neuroscience), Dr Judge (UF/IFAS Agricultural and Biological Engineering) and Dr Bae(UF Astronomy)- great look forward. Thanks to NVIDIA!

Reminder!~ Today at 5:30pm Author Rebecca Boyle will be giving a seminar. This seminar is free and open to the public. Please join us as Rebecca takes us on a journey to a nearest celestial neighbor! #ArtemisGeneration

Rob’s gonna chat about his trip to space! Come join us as he discusses his experience over a beer First Magnitude

Come visit us and chat about opportunities with Astraeus!

The University of Florida has teamed up with NASA, UCF, and Embry-Riddle Univ for a one-of-a-kind partnership to provide critical research support that will advance long-term human space exploration. news.ufl.edu/2025/01/nasa-c…

🌌 Florida Trend Viewpoints: Dive into groundbreaking insights with Dr. Rob Ferl and Dr. Anna-Lisa Paul from the @ufastraeus Space Institute at FLORIDA. 🚀 These trailblazers explore how life adapts and thrives in space, sharing key discoveries that shape the future of space

Exciting work from Nils on his research using microbes to turn CO2 into sustainable bioplastics that could tackle plastic waste on Earth & aid long-term space exploration. UF IFAS Solutions University of Florida Research FLORIDA UF Microbiology the-microbiologist.com/careers/toward… #SpaceResearch