Veg-03D Experiment Onboard the International Space Station. First time three different plant varieties are being grown simultaneously in the Veggie chamber -- Mizuna mustard, Waldmann's green lettuce and Outredgeous Red Romaine lettuce.

Charles Spern, project manager on the Engineering Services Contract, communicates instructions for the Veggie system to astronaut Joe Acaba on the International Space Station. Spern is in the Experiment Monitoring Room in the Space Station Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Three different varieties of plants from the Veg-03D plant experiment were harvested.

Three different varieties of plants growing in the Veggie plant growth chamber on the International Space Station were harvested this morning.