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NASA, USDA get their green thumbs dirty

Cold weather did not deter NASA officials and Washington-area students from helping first lady Michelle Obama plant seedlings in the White House Kitchen Garden ...

Michael O'Connell@moconnellWFED

April 6, 2016 9:48 am

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NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman, center left, and NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, center right, jump for a photo with students from the Washburn School Garden Program after planting seedlings of the same variety of lettuce that was grown on the International Space Station with first lady Michelle Obama at the White House Kitchen Garden on Tuesday, April 5, 2016 in Washington, D.C.

(NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

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