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NASA crew plants third lettuce crop on International Space Station

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, a new crew member aboard the ISS, started the Veg-03 experiment, which is a validation of the tools and procedures needed to grow plants to provide fresh food for astronauts, NASA said in a statement. Kimbrough started installing hardware and plant pillows for the experiment, while the other members of the Veggie team watched from their consoles in the Experiment Monitoring Area in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. “Operations went great today! A little slower than expected, but all plant pillows were successfully primed for the first time in our Veg series,” Nicole Dufour, NASA’s Veggie project manager, said in a NASA news release.

The ISS has a Veggie plant growth facility where previous experiments had been conducted. Veg-03 builds on the success of previous experiments, such as the Veg-01, which resulted in the first-ever on-orbit harvest and sampling of fresh produce during the summer of 2015, NASA said. The Veg-03 crop will be the Veggie team’s first in-orbit attempt at a new and repetitive harvest technique called “Cut-and-Come-Again.”

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