Astronaut Frank Rubio lost a valuable tomato in space. But his colleagues just found it

CNN ^ | Dec 8, 2023 11:51 AM EST Copied | Jackie Wattles, CNN

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Astronaut Frank Rubio harvested one of the first tomatoes ever grown in space. And then misplaced it. He returned to Earth with the precious produce still lost aboard the space station. It remained lost — until now.

“I put it in a little bag, and one of my crewmates was doing a (public) event with some schoolkids, and I thought it’d be kind of cool to show the kids — ‘Hey guys, this is the first tomato harvested in space,’” Rubio said during an October media event. “I was pretty confident that I Velcroed it where I was supposed to Velcro it … and then I came back and it was gone.”

Rubio returned to Earth on September 27 with the precious produce still lost aboard the space station.

During a Wednesday news conference, members of the seven-person crew remaining on the space station revealed they had finally located the tomato. Rubio had “been blamed for quite a while for eating the tomato,” NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli said. “But we can exonerate him.”

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Rubio’s return to Earth in September was a historic moment. His stay on the space station — which lasted more than a year — set a record for the longest a US astronaut has ever spent in microgravity.

[Magnum44]

You had one job Frank...

[gibsonguy]

Good one.

[x]

What happened to the two astronettes?

Are they still chasing after the lost tool bag?

[Eccl 10:2]

You can be sure they wouldn’t lose their cosmetics bag!

[dljordan]

“You can be sure they wouldn’t lose their cosmetics bag!”

Or their phones.

[SunkenCiv]

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