A tomato that was lost in space for 8 months has finally been found

The mystery of space has finally been solved. tomatoes That she had lost to International Space Station During the first harvest of exotic tomatoes, they were found dried over After 8 months. A wide variety of Red Robin tomatoes 2.5 cm It was part of his harvest Vegetable experiment-05 On Growing Vegetables in Space, hosted by Rubio. Last March, each astronaut on the International Space Station was given a sample of the crop to try, but the Rubio tomatoes — which were sealed in a plastic bag — disappeared.

“Our good friend Frank Rubio, who was already returning home, was accused for some time of eating tomatoes. But we can clear him of the charges after we found the tomatoes,” the astronaut said. NASA Yasmine Mojbeli.

However, the astronaut did not specify where or in what condition the tomatoes were found.

Rubio first addressed the issue of the “missing” tomatoes publicly on September 13, when Record breaking For the longest stay in microgravity by an American astronaut.

“I spent hours and hours looking for this thing,” Rubio joked during a live broadcast in September. “I’m sure the sun-dried tomatoes will come and prove it to me years in the future,” he added.

Reporters asked Rubio about tomatoes on October 13, about two weeks after he and his crew (Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petlin) returned safely home after… 371 days in space.

Rubio complained of never finding tomatoes, despite spending hours searching for them.

“The problem you know is the humidity up there is about 17%. It’s probably so dry you can’t tell what it is and someone threw the bag away,” Rubio added with a laugh.

source: Live sciences