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

    12/12/2023 10:48:32 AM PST · by deport · 6 replies
    CNN ^ | Dec 8, 2023 11:51 AM EST Copied | Jackie Wattles, CNN
    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...