Veg-03 J/K/L Prelaunch Prepartions for NG-13

Researchers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida have laid out supplies to prepare plant pillows inside the Space Station Processing Facility at on Jan. 16, 2020. The pillows are small containers used to grow plants in microgravity aboard the International Space Station. These pillows are for a series of plant experiments called VEG-03 J/K/L that will monitor the growth of three types of leafy greens. 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 p.m. EST from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

Researchers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida have laid out supplies to prepare plant pillows inside the Space Station Processing Facility at on Jan. 16, 2020. The pillows are small containers used to grow plants in microgravity aboard the International Space Station. These pillows are for a series of plant experiments called VEG-03 J/K/L that will monitor the growth of three types of leafy greens. 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 p.m. EST from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

Photographer NASA/Ben Smegelsky
Location SSPF
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