These tomatoes were lost on the International Space Station for almost a year
In A interview This autumn following her back has Earth Since THE International Space Station, NASA astronaut Franc Rubio sharing A little assignment anecdote that had We grasped: After he would have harvest A of THE First of all tomatoes grown up In space And bagged he up For A presentation, THE bag And It is Content went missing. With No trace of THE fruit, THE other astronauts jokingly accused Rubio of eat he. SO, eight month later has THE beginning of December, THE lost tomato reappeared. A photo sharing by NASA NOW watch there were In fact two tomatoes In THE thug sample — And, all things considered, they don't do it look half bad.
While A tomato LEFT has to rot on Earth is not it A pleasant thing has come through, Rubios tomatoes just look A little dried out. "Other that a few discoloration, he had No visible microbial Or fungal growth," NASA wrote In A Blog post.
NASA has For years has been experiment with manners has to grow food on THE SSI And to study how THE space environment affected factory growth. THE red dwarf tomatoes were grown up as part of A program called THE exposed Root In orbit Test System, Or XROOTS, which uses A combination of hydroponic And aeroponic techniques instead of ground. Rubio, WHO was on THE SSI For A record 371 days Before her back In September 2023, harvest A batch of THE tomatoes In March has be sent back has Earth And examined For THE VEG-05 study.
As For THE sample Rubio suspended on, which he destined has to show has schoolchildren In A event A crew member had foreseen, THE astronaut said THE tomatoes simply disappeared. "I was pretty confident that I Velcroed he Or I was supposed has Velcro he, And SO I came back And he was disappeared," he said. Rubio said he spent "eight has 20 hours" look For he, has No enjoy. NOW that they have turned up (And Since has been thrown away far), were just dying has know Or they were hidden all that time. We have reached out has NASA And will update This history if We find out any of them more information.
In A interview This autumn following her back has Earth Since THE International Space Station, NASA astronaut Franc Rubio sharing A little assignment anecdote that had We grasped: After he would have harvest A of THE First of all tomatoes grown up In space And bagged he up For A presentation, THE bag And It is Content went missing. With No trace of THE fruit, THE other astronauts jokingly accused Rubio of eat he. SO, eight month later has THE beginning of December, THE lost tomato reappeared. A photo sharing by NASA NOW watch there were In fact two tomatoes In THE thug sample — And, all things considered, they don't do it look half bad.
While A tomato LEFT has to rot on Earth is not it A pleasant thing has come through, Rubios tomatoes just look A little dried out. "Other that a few discoloration, he had No visible microbial Or fungal growth," NASA wrote In A Blog post.
NASA has For years has been experiment with manners has to grow food on THE SSI And to study how THE space environment affected factory growth. THE red dwarf tomatoes were grown up as part of A program called THE exposed Root In orbit Test System, Or XROOTS, which uses A combination of hydroponic And aeroponic techniques instead of ground. Rubio, WHO was on THE SSI For A record 371 days Before her back In September 2023, harvest A batch of THE tomatoes In March has be sent back has Earth And examined For THE VEG-05 study.
As For THE sample Rubio suspended on, which he destined has to show has schoolchildren In A event A crew member had foreseen, THE astronaut said THE tomatoes simply disappeared. "I was pretty confident that I Velcroed he Or I was supposed has Velcro he, And SO I came back And he was disappeared," he said. Rubio said he spent "eight has 20 hours" look For he, has No enjoy. NOW that they have turned up (And Since has been thrown away far), were just dying has know Or they were hidden all that time. We have reached out has NASA And will update This history if We find out any of them more information.
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