Astronaut does 1st plant transplant in NASA's Veggie facility on ISS

NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins conducted the first plant transplant within NASA's Veggie facility at ISS. Hopkins was tending varieties of mustards and lettuces and noticed two plant pillows containing 'Outredgeous' Red Romaine and 'Dragoon' lettuce seeds were germinating slowly, growing well behind the other plants. He transplanted extra sprouts from thriving pillows into the struggling ones.