Emily Kennebeck, an intern at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, measures the seed wick emerging from a plant pillow in the Space Station Processing Facility on Jan. 16, 2019. Researchers will glue seeds for two crops onto the wicks. A common method used to grow plants in space, the pillows are being sent to the International Space Station for a series of VEG-03 experiments that will study the growth of three types of leafy greens in a microgravity environment and a new seed handling material. The experiments will be launched to the orbiting laboratory aboard a Northrop Grumman Antares ro
Emily Kennebeck, an intern at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, measures the seed wick emerging from a plant pillow in the Space Station Processing Facility on Jan. 16, 2019. Researchers will glue seeds for two crops onto the wicks. A common method used to grow plants in space, the pillows are being sent to the International Space Station for a series of VEG-03 experiments that will study the growth of three types of leafy greens in a microgravity environment and a new seed handling material. The experiments will be launched to the orbiting laboratory aboard a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft on the company’s 13th resupply services mission. Liftoff is scheduled for Feb. 9, 2020, at 5:39 EST from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
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