'Veggie' Experiment Launching to Station Aboard SpaceX
Cargo Craft
The International Space Station's Vegetable
Production System ("Veggie") experiment is on display in the News Center at
NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Veggie is a new investigation with
"edible results" heading to the space station. Veggie is a deployable plant
growth unit capable of producing salad-type crops to provide the crew with
appetizing, nutritious and safe fresh food and support crew relaxation and
recreation. It will serve as a new space station facility as well and will
provide a venue for future plant growth research.
To the right of the Veggie experiment is a model of the Space Launch System
(SLS), the nation's next heavy-lift launch vehicle. NASA is developing the
SLS and Orion
spacecraft to provide an entirely new capability for human exploration
beyond low-Earth orbit, with the flexibility to launch spacecraft for crew and
cargo missions, including to an asteroid and Mars.
The Veggie experiment is aboard SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft, scheduled
to launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air
Force Station, Fla. at 4:58 p.m. EDT on Monday, April 14, 2014. The SpaceX-3
mission is carrying almost 2.5 tons of supplies, technology and science
experiments and is the third of 12 flights contracted by NASA to resupply the
orbiting laboratory.
Read more about cargo launching to the International Space Station aboard
SpaceX-3:
> SpaceX’s Dragon Headed to Space Station to Create Astronaut Farmers
> CASIS-Sponsored Research Heads to Space Station Aboard SpaceX-3
> International Space Station to Beam Video via Laser Back to Earth
> NASA's Latest Smartphone Satellite Ready for Launch
> SpaceX’s Dragon Headed to Space Station to Create Astronaut Farmers
> CASIS-Sponsored Research Heads to Space Station Aboard SpaceX-3
> International Space Station to Beam Video via Laser Back to Earth
> NASA's Latest Smartphone Satellite Ready for Launch
Image Credit: NASA/Kim
Shiflett
NASA
Guillermo Gonzalo Sánchez Achutegui
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario