NASA's Space to Ground: Space Gardening | Week of August 12, 2022

NASA's Space to Ground: Space Gardening | Week of August 12, 2022

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. Healing wounds in space and growing crops in low-Earth orbit and beyond were among the major research topics aboard the International Space Station this week. Meanwhile, the Expedition 67 crew was also packing a U.S. cargo craft, SpaceX 's CRS-25, and preparing for a Russian spacewalk next week.

Expedition 67 Crew

Commander Oleg Artemyev (Russia)

Roscosmos Flight Engineers: Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov (Russia)

NASA Flight Engineers: Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins (USA)

European Space Agency (ESA) Flight Engineer: Samantha Cristoforetti (Italy)

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the  International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 2 minutes, 46 seconds

Release Date: August 12, 2022

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