Astronaut Mark Vande Hei sets up components for the MVP-Plant-01 space botany study.
iss066e129788 (Jan. 26, 2022) — NASA astronaut and Expedition 66 Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei sets up components for the MVP-Plant-01 space botany study and nourishes Arabidopsis plants grown on petri plates. That investigation is exploring how plant molecular mechanisms and regulatory networks adapt to the weightless environment of space.