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Gardeners of the Galaxy Mission Report: 23 July 2024

Gardeners of the Galaxy Mission Report: 23 July 2024

Your weekly round-up of astrobotany news and adventure. This week we've got astronauts studying how to water space plants, a new lunar analog facility under construction and GotG’s fourth birthday!

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Hello, Gardeners of the Galaxy! Welcome to this week's Mission Report.

Two photos with Suni Williams, one with Butch Wilmore, both working with a weird desktop contraption that's a board with tubing and sponges attached to it, with a syringe at the top. It's all red/orange, which is the colour of the liquid used during the tests.Two photos with Suni Williams, one with Butch Wilmore, both working with a weird desktop contraption that's a board with tubing and sponges attached to it, with a syringe at the top. It's all red/orange, which is the colour of the liquid used during the tests.Two photos with Suni Williams, one with Butch Wilmore, both working with a weird desktop contraption that's a board with tubing and sponges attached to it, with a syringe at the top. It's all red/orange, which is the colour of the liquid used during the tests.
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore studying plant watering in space. Image credits: NASA Johnson.

The Starliner astronauts are making good use of their time on the International Space Station (ISS), working on the Plant Water Management 5 and 6 experiments, which launched to the ISS on the SpaceX CRS-29 cargo resupply mission in November 2023.

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