CCP Crew-13 Astronauts Tour Plant Processing Area

Project Scientist Natasha Haveman (right) shows NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Stan Love microgreens grown in the Plant Processing Area inside the Space Systems Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a tour  on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. Watkins and NASA astronaut Luke Delaney, along with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk,  and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov (not pictured), are part of NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station and will explore the possibility of growing crops outside of the station’s Veggie chamber – one of two enclosed areas currently used to grow crops on the orbiting laboratory. 

Project Scientist Natasha Haveman (right) shows NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Stan Love microgreens grown in the Plant Processing Area inside the Space Systems Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a tour  on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. Watkins and NASA astronaut Luke Delaney, along with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk,  and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov (not pictured), are part of NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station and will explore the possibility of growing crops outside of the station’s Veggie chamber – one of two enclosed areas currently used to grow crops on the orbiting laboratory. 

Photographer NASA/Kim Shiflett
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