CCP Crew-13 Astronauts Tour Plant Processing Area

From left, Trent Smith, a senior leader of the NASA Kennedy Space Crop Production team, welcomes NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and NASA astronaut Luke Delaney to  the Plant Processing Area inside the Space Systems Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a tour of the facility on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. Watkins, Delaney, and Kutryk, along with 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. 

From left, Trent Smith, a senior leader of the NASA Kennedy Space Crop Production team, welcomes NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, and NASA astronaut Luke Delaney to  the Plant Processing Area inside the Space Systems Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a tour of the facility on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. Watkins, Delaney, and Kutryk, along with 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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