{"id":7285,"date":"2014-04-10T23:26:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T23:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7285"},"modified":"2014-04-10T23:26:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T23:26:55","slug":"vegetable-garden-going-to-the-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7285","title":{"rendered":"Vegetable garden going to the ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The upcoming SpaceX Dragon cargo mission<\/a> to the Int. Space Station will include a miniature veggie garden:<\/p>\n

Veggie Will Expand Fresh Food Production on Space Station\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A plant growth chamber bound for the\u00a0International Space Station<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0inside the\u00a0Dragon<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0capsule on the SpaceX-3 resupply mission may help expand\u00a0in-orbit food production<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0capabilities in more ways than one, and offer astronauts something they don\u2019t take for granted, fresh food.<\/p>\n

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Outredgeous red romaine lettuce plants grow inside in a prototype Veggie <\/em>
\nflight pillow. The bellows of the hardware have been lowered to better <\/em>
\nobserve the plants. A small temperature and relative humidity data logger<\/em>
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Image Credit: \u00a0NASA\/Gioia Massa<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

NASA\u2019s\u00a0Veg-01<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0experiment will be used to study the in-orbit function and performance of a new expandable plant growth facility called\u00a0Veggie<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and its plant \u201cpillows.\u201d The investigation will focus on the growth and development of \u201cOutredgeous\u201d lettuce seedlings in the spaceflight environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cVeggie will provide a new resource for U.S. astronauts and researchers as we begin to develop the capabilities of growing fresh produce and other large plants on the space station,\u201d said Gioia Massa, NASA payload scientist for Veggie. \u201cDetermining food safety is one of our primary goals for this validation test.\u201d<\/p>\n

Veggie is a low-cost plant growth chamber that uses a flat-panel light bank that includes red, blue and green LEDs for plant growth and crew observation. Veggie\u2019s unique design is collapsible for transport and storage and expandable up to a foot and a half as plants grow inside it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe internal growing area is 11.5 inches wide by 14.5 inches deep, making it the largest plant growth chamber for space to date,\u201d Massa said.<\/p>\n

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A 28-day-old Outredgeous red romaine lettuce plant grows in a prototype v flight <\/em>
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\nare \u00a0going to receive a newly developed Vegetable Production System Veggie.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Image Credit: \u00a0NASA\/Gioia Massa<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Orbital Sciences Corp. (ORBITEC) in Madison, Wis., developed Veggie through a Small Business Innovative Research Program. NASA and ORBITEC engineers and collaborators at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida worked to get the unit\u2019s hardware flight-certified for use on the space station.<\/p>\n

Because real estate on the station is limited, some adjustments to the growth chamber were made to accommodate space requirements. At Kennedy\u2019s Space Life Sciences Laboratory, a crop of lettuce and radishes was grown in the prototype test unit. Seedlings were placed in the Veggie root-mat pillows, and their growth was monitored for health, size, amount of water used, and the microorganisms that grew on them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am thrilled to be a member of the Veggie and Veg-01 team and proud of all the work we have done to prepare for flight,\u201d Massa said. \u201cOur team is very excited to see the hardware in use on the space station.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Outredgeous red romaine lettuce plants grow inside the bellows of a prototype <\/em>
\nVeggie flight pillow. It will launch aboard SpaceX’s Dragon capsule on NASA’s<\/em>
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\nfrom Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.<\/em>
\n\u00a0Image Credit:\u00a0<\/span>NASA\/Bryan Onate<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

As NASA moves toward long-duration exploration missions, Massa hopes that Veggie will be a resource for crew food growth and consumption. It also could be used by astronauts for recreational gardening activities during long-duration space missions. The system may have implications for improving growth and biomass production on Earth, thus benefiting the average citizen.<\/p>\n

For the future, Massa said she is looking forward to seeing all sorts of \u201cneat payloads\u201d in the Veggie unit and expanding its capability as NASA learns more about the food safety of crops grown in microgravity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The upcoming SpaceX Dragon cargo mission to the Int. Space Station will include a miniature veggie garden: Veggie Will Expand Fresh Food Production on Space Station\u00a0 A plant growth chamber bound for the\u00a0International Space Station\u00a0inside the\u00a0Dragon\u00a0capsule on the SpaceX-3 resupply mission may help expand\u00a0in-orbit food production\u00a0capabilities in more ways than one, and offer astronauts something … Continue reading Vegetable garden going to the ISS<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-space","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1Tv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11177,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11177","url_meta":{"origin":7285,"position":0},"title":"Video: ISS astronauts sample locally grown lettuce","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Today astronauts on the Int. 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