It must be hard to miss something when you’re orbiting the Earth on the International Space Station – right? Well, probably not. A missing tomato sparked a mild mystery for the astronauts aboard the ISS – and it’s finally been solved after months of accusations and intrigue.
What is likely to be one of the first tomatoes ever to be harvested in space was photographed by astronaut Frank Rubio in March, shared in a post on NASA’s X (formerly known as Twitter) . So when it makes sense, when he disappeared, that all the finger pointing was directed at Rubio.
Rubio recently made history for breaking the record for the longest space flight for a US astronaut, spending 371 days in space. He returned to Earth at the end of September and spoke at a NASA briefing in October, where he addressed these tomato-eating claims.
He explained that NASA was conducting botanical studies on board the ISS so that astronauts could discover ways to grow fresh food in space for longer term missions.
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