Veggie PONDS

iss055e070862 (5/14/2018) --- NASA Astronaut Drew Feustel is photographed performing Veggie Passive Orbital Nutrient Delivery System (PONDS) operations - including cleaning the Veggie Ponds hardware and Veggie facility (location COL1A1_B1/D1) and then setting up for Drying Out - in the Columbus module. The primary goal of the Veggie PONDS hardware validation test is to demonstrate plant growth in a newly developed plant growing system, PONDS.