NASA's Sunita Williams explores watering plants in space: When will Starliner astronauts return to Earth?

livemint.com:

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) reported that Indian-origin Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who skyrocketed to space on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on July 5, "continued exploring ways to effectively water plants in the weightless environment".The two NASA astronauts took turns in the "Harmony module", testing how root models and plants of various sizes would absorb water in microgravity.Harmony is a utility hub, providing air, electrical power, water, and other systems essential to support life on the station. It also provides international docking adapters on its space-facing and forward ports for commercial crew vehicles, NASA explains.Earlier, NASA's press release on July 16 said NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams spent the majority of their day testing ways to water plants growing without soil in the weightless environment of microgravity."Williams first set up the Plant Water Management hardware in the Harmony module then tested a variety of liquid flow methods while video recording the results.