UH Hilo Team Works on Food Security for NASA’s Moon Missions

As NASA makes plans to return astronauts to the moon, UH Hilo students are getting involved in designing lunar food systems—and they’re including Hawaiian plants.

When Kamalani Poepoe (“Kama”) was a toddler, her family lived in a Waianae apartment building, just off the beach. At night, her father would take her out to the sand and they would look up at the stars together. By early elementary school, she knew she wanted to be an astronomer. For the rest of her early schooling, she invested herself heavily in robotics and any extracurricular that would teach her more about STEM.

Poepoe is now double majoring in astronomy and geology at UH Hilo. Last semester, Professor Heather Kaluna told Poepoe about a project Kaluna wanted to start that would involve native culture.

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