NASA and SpaceX are blasting a bunch of lettuce into orbit. As part of the SpaceX-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station, SpaceX’s Dragon craft is carrying a plant growth chamber called ...

NASA announced today that it is developing a vegetable garden designed for longer space missions and give space stations the ability to grow salad foods in space. The project is colloquially named ...

Growing plants in space is hard, for reasons more or less obvious. For one, in the microgravity environment of space, plant roots grow every which way, making it next to impossible for them to absorb ...

Teachers get trained on how to construct their new veggie boxes. Teachers in Miami-Dade County gathered this weekend at Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden to get new materials that could one day help ...

NASA/KSC has a requirement for sustaining engineering services for Veggie and Veggie associated equipment from October 1, 2015 through September 30, 2016. This will include drawing updates and design ...

International Space Station astronauts will taste for the first time today food that's been planted, grown and harvested in space, NASA announced on Friday. The astronauts were looking forward to ...