{"id":775281,"date":"2023-12-10T06:53:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T11:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=775281"},"modified":"2023-12-10T06:53:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T11:53:51","slug":"space-station-astronauts-solve-the-mystery-of-a-missing-tomato-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=775281","title":{"rendered":"Space station astronauts solve the mystery of a missing tomato : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n NASA astronaut Frank Rubio checks tomato plants growing inside the International Space Station for a space botany study.
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It’s gotta be hard to lose something when you’re swirling around the Earth on the International Space Station \u2014 right? Well, apparently not. A missing tomato sparked a lighthearted mystery for the astronauts on board the ISS \u2013 and it’s finally been solved after months of accusations and intrigue.<\/p>\n

What is likely one of the first tomatoes ever harvested in space was plucked by astronaut Frank Rubio in March, shared in a post on X (formerly known as Twitter) by NASA. So when it makes sense that when it vanished, all finger pointing was directed at Rubio. <\/p>\n