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Lonappan John and Aadrita Roy analyze trials to optimize their microgravity experiment exploring germination and growth of Sesamun indicum. Image courtesy of Mary Vaughn.

jsc2023e065196 (10/26/2023) --- Student researchers Lonappan John and Aadrita Roywork on their experiment, The Changes of Nutritional and Germination values of Sesame Microgreens in Microgravity, which will be included in the Nanoracks-National Center for Earth and Space Science Education-Orbiter-Student Spaceflight Experiments Program Mission 17 to ISS (Nanoracks-NCESSE-Orbiter-SSEP).

Photographer Mary Vaughn