NASA astronauts finally find tomato that was lost in space for months

New York Post - 09/12
It takes a village to raise a child – and it takes seven astronauts to find a missing tomato in space. Frank Rubio, NASA Astronaut and US Army Lieutenant Colonel, became a pioneer when he grew and …
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It takes a village to raise a child – and it takes seven astronauts to find a missing tomato in space.

Frank Rubio, NASA Astronaut and U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, became a pioneer when he grew and harvested one of the first tomatoes ever grown in space in March of this year.

But when it inexplicably went missing one day, people assumed he had eaten it.

“I was pretty confident that I velcroed it where I was supposed to velcro it,” he said during a NASA briefing after his time in space. “And then I came back, and it was gone.”

Frank Rubio working on growing vegetation to eat in space. Astronauts typically only live off of pre-packaged goods. Picture: Koichi Wakata/Japan Aerospace Exploration Age...
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