Yes good morning effort Wow I'm gonna
start getting set up and get some
equipment out but uh we'll let you know
we have any questions everything and
just a little quick thing as you're me
harvesting both veggies approximately
half the leaves from each plant my role
during on over harvest is to park the
astronauts and helping them out and
think ahead for themselves and saving
that valuable crew time and we can help
them guide them through the written
procedures and if there's any anomalies
that come up we can help them work
through that while during real-time ops
again you'll be weighing the leaves once
you cut them splitting the leaves up
between science and then consumption and
then weighing the leaves that you're
gonna consume in MMD so there's plenty
of work for both of you to do they're
following a procedure that we write for
them to do the activity and it's maybe
the first time they've seen that
procedure that's negative we weigh them
on the ground
but right now particularly for a vigil
for B we're planting the seeds here and
then packing them for flights then when
the astronauts take out those pillows
from stowage and insert them into the
veggie units just add water to it it'll
start growing copy all Dru thank you
very much or look at them up hopefully
everything's going pretty well it looks
good it's a little bit slow get going
until about two weeks in and then at two
weeks it picks up growth and we just see
it burst to life and we take it all the
way until about four weeks when we do
our first harvest and we cut it back to
where we have just these small leaves
left and then it starts all over where
it continues to pick up growth and we
take that to our next harvest
going into digit walk back in being way
to that correct half of them will go
into the foil and then half of them will
go into the ziploc she may need to cut
off a couple more on that number six
there's a there's a larger right leave
it's like coming right for us yeah she's
not she's okay to cut off the
medium-sized ones as well
number five I just I don't want her to
get so far that then she can't get
samples put back where they need to go
in generic containers so the astronauts
will come in and for a cut and come
again harvest they will take off the
majority of our leaves they'll leave
behind just the smallest youngest leaves
to continue growing until we come back
in a couple of weeks to do our next cut
and coming in harvest these so we're
looking at how our different nutrients
varying across these late treatments
because the longer we go through space
the more we're really concentrating on
providing high nutrient crops to our
astronauts and they're gonna call down
weights from the MMD measurements so
they're gonna call down three light
weights for each plant male plants yes
so we're you know compare notes to make
sure we've heard everything there okay
and then the other half of the crops
that they've been harvesting from each
pillow they will sanitize on-orbit they
weigh them in the mass measurement
device so we actually can find out how
much those leaves weigh in microgravity
which is a new wonderful tool that we
have then put these plant samples inside
a little ziploc bag and then the
astronauts will then consume those
leaves as part of a taste test and if
they have any left over they can have it
with dinner
Kabhi thumbs up and the plants look
great Jessica good job this year our
final harvest four bedroom four B is on
Thanksgiving so the astronauts will be
enjoying the food they're away from
their families we'll be in here
supporting them away from our families
so it's a it's a little bit of a if you
will a NASA space family having you know
harvesting a part of their meal together
they look really good
this is the best one we've had
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