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Inside the Veggie flight laboratory in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Dr. Gioia Massa, NASA Veggie project lead, checks the fit of a plant pillow for the Veg-03 experiment in a flight pack. The plant pillows will be delivered to the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft during its eighth Commercial Resupply Services mission. The Veg-03 plant pillows contain ‘Tokyo Bekana’ cabbage seeds and lettuce seeds for NASA’s third Veggie plant growth system experiment. The experiment will continue NASA’s deep space plant growth research to benefit the Earth and the agency’s journey to Mars.