There is perhaps no other place where ripe tomatoes are as valuable as those in International Space Station (ISS)Astronauts mainly eat packaged, ready-to-eat products for several months. for this reason Frank Rubio He became the central figure in a mystery that took months to solve, as CNN describes the case.
Astronaut at the beginning of the year He harvested one of the first tomatoes grown in space.
“I put it in a little bag and one of my crewmates was having a meeting with school kids and I thought it would be cool to show them: Hey, these are the first tomatoes harvested in space,” Rubio recalled in October. – I was sure I attached it where I was supposed to, and then I came back and it was gone – He said.
The tomatoes that Frank Rubio lost have been found
And in space, anything that isn’t connected can “float away” and spend eternity in the nooks and crannies of a rotating laboratory the size of a football field or maze-like hallways, CNN explains.
Rubio said so He devoted dozens of hours of his free time to searching for the missing item. – Unfortunately, because this is human nature, many people said: “Maybe eat tomatoes,” the astronaut recalls. “And I wanted to find it mainly to prove that I didn’t eat it,” he said jokingly. Unfortunately, Rubio returned to Earth on September 27, having not found the precious vegetable.
During a press conference on Wednesday, the remaining seven crew members on the space station announced that they had finally arrived They located the missing tomatoes.
– Frank Rubio has been blamed for eating tomatoes for a long time, but we can exonerate him – NASA astronaut Yasmine Moghbeli said. But she did not reveal where the vegetables were found or their condition. Rubio predicted in October that the tomatoes may have shrunk to “rot beyond recognition.”
– Due to the humidity in the space station, it may have dried to such an extent that it would be impossible to know what it is – said the astronaut.
The astronaut broke the record. It remained in space for more than a year
Frank Rubio’s return to Earth in September was a historic moment. He created an astronaut who stayed on the International Space Station for more than a year Record for longest stay In the case of the US national team.
Rubio originally expected to spend six months on the International Space Station. However, while docking with the orbital station, he discovered a coolant leak in the Soyuz spacecraft he was traveling on. As a result of this event, the astronaut had to stay on the station for a while 371 days.
“I allowed myself to have a day of sadness and self-pity, and then I tried to make an informed decision and said, ‘OK, let’s have a good attitude and let’s just try to do the best job we can,'” Rubio said. Recalling the moment he learned that his stay would be extended for another six months.
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