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NASA image: Close-up view of dwarf peas with red flowers on the Russian Plant Growth Experiment
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Apr 6, 2003

Close-up view of dwarf peas with red flowers on the Russian Plant Growth Experiment

ISS006-E-44969 (6 April 2003) --- A close up view of a bloom on the Russian BIO-5 Rasteniya-2/Lada-2 (Plants-2)...

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NASA image: Close-up view of dwarf peas with red flowers on the Russian Plant Growth Experiment
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Apr 6, 2003

Close-up view of dwarf peas with red flowers on the Russian Plant Growth Experiment

ISS006-E-44973 (6 April 2003) --- A close up view of a bloom on the Russian BIO-5 Rasteniya-2/Lada-2 (Plants-2)...

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NASA image: Water droplet on a leaf on the Russian BIO-5 Rastenya-2 Plant Growth Experiment
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Mar 9, 2003

Water droplet on a leaf on the Russian BIO-5 Rastenya-2 Plant Growth Experiment

ISS006-E-44970 (9 March 2003) --- A close up view of a water droplet on a leaf on the Russian BIO-5...

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NASA image: Korzun checks the Rasteniya-2 plant growth experiment in the SM during Expedition Five
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Nov 8, 2002

Korzun checks the Rasteniya-2 plant growth experiment in the SM during Expedition Five

ISS005-E-20302 (8 November 2002) --- Cosmonaut Valery G. Korzun, Expedition Five mission commander, checks a plant...

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NASA image: Lonchakov checks the Rasteniya-2 plant growth experiment in the SM during Expedition Five
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Nov 8, 2002

Lonchakov checks the Rasteniya-2 plant growth experiment in the SM during Expedition Five

ISS005-E-20309 (8 November 2002) --- Soyuz 5 Flight Engineer Yuri V. Lonchakov looks at a plant growth experiment in...

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NASA image: Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Radish Harvest for PH-02
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Jun 13, 2019

Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Radish Harvest for PH-02

A radish plant is weighed inside a laboratory in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space...

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NASA image: Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Radish Harvest for PH-02
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Jun 13, 2019

Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Radish Harvest for PH-02

A colorful radish plant is in view inside the Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) ground unit inside a laboratory in the...

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NASA image: DeWinne posing at the Rasteniya-2 plant growth experiment in the SM during Expedition Five
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Nov 8, 2002

DeWinne posing at the Rasteniya-2 plant growth experiment in the SM during Expedition Five

ISS005-E-20310 (8 November 2002) --- Belgian Soyuz 5 Flight Engineer Frank DeWinne is pictured near a plant growth...

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NASA image: Algae Bioreactor and Plant Growth Tour
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Jun 13, 2018

Algae Bioreactor and Plant Growth Tour

Inside a laboratory in the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...

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NASA image: ISS@25: Operations
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Dec 8, 2023

ISS@25: Operations

Sustained success does not happen by accident. Daily operations on the space station fuel research in plant growth,...

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NASA image: SSPF - 25 Year Anniversary Then & Now
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May 16, 2019

SSPF - 25 Year Anniversary Then & Now

Researchers are testing plant growth in a ground unit of the Advanced Plant Habitat inside a laboratory in the Space...

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NASA image: Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Radish Harvest for PH-02
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Jun 13, 2019

Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Radish Harvest for PH-02

From left, Oscar Monje, Ph.D., a plant physiologist with AECOM Management Services; and Alora Mazarakis, an...

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NASA image: Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Radish Harvest for PH-02
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Jun 13, 2019

Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Radish Harvest for PH-02

Oscar Monje, Ph.D., a plant physiologist with AECOM Management Services, weighs a harvested radish plant inside a...

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NASA image: Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Radish Harvest for PH-02
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Jun 13, 2019

Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Radish Harvest for PH-02

Inside a laboratory in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, plant...

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NASA image: Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Radish Harvest for PH-02
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Jun 13, 2019

Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Radish Harvest for PH-02

Inside a laboratory in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a plant...

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NASA image: Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Radish Harvest for PH-02
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Jun 13, 2019

Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Radish Harvest for PH-02

Inside a laboratory in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a plant...

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NASA image: Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Radish Harvest for PH-02
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Jun 13, 2019

Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Radish Harvest for PH-02

Clayton Grosse, a mechanical engineer with Techshot, uses a punch to take a sample of the leaf of a radish plant...

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NASA image: Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Radish Harvest for PH-02
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Jun 13, 2019

Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Radish Harvest for PH-02

A sample of a leaf from one of the radish plant growing in the base of the Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) ground unit...

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NASA image: Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Radish Harvest for PH-02
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Jun 13, 2019

Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Radish Harvest for PH-02

Clayton Grosse, a mechanical engineer with Techshot, prepares to harvest radish plants from the base of the Advanced...

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NASA image: SSPF - 25 Year Anniversary Then & Now
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May 16, 2019

SSPF - 25 Year Anniversary Then & Now

Ground unit experiment chambers for the Veggie plant growth system, at right, and the Advanced Plant Habitat, at...

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NASA image: SSPF - 25 Year Anniversary Then & Now
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May 16, 2019

SSPF - 25 Year Anniversary Then & Now

Ground unit experiment chambers for the Veggie plant growth system and the Advanced Plant Habitat are in view in a...

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NASA image: SSPF - 25 Year Anniversary Then & Now
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May 16, 2019

SSPF - 25 Year Anniversary Then & Now

Ground unit experiment chambers for the Veggie plant growth system, at right, and the Advanced Plant Habitat, at...

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NASA image: Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Radish Harvest for PH-02
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Jun 13, 2019

Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Radish Harvest for PH-02

From left are Ashleigh Ruggles, a launch operations support specialist with Techshot; Oscar Monje, Ph.D., a plant...

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NASA image: SSPF - 25 Year Anniversary Then & Now
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May 16, 2019

SSPF - 25 Year Anniversary Then & Now

Two plant growth experiments are in view behind glass in a laboratory inside the Space Station Processing Facility...

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