"NASA Astronauts Solve Mystery of Missing Space Tomato on ISS"

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A missing tomato on the International Space Station sparked a lighthearted mystery among the astronauts, with accusations directed at astronaut Frank Rubio. Rubio, who recently broke the record for the longest spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut, explained that he had harvested the tomato as part of a space botany study but had lost it. After months of searching, the tomato was finally found, exonerating Rubio from the accusations. The tomato was one of the first ever harvested in space and will be returned to Earth for scientific analysis.
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