Mystery of the missing space tomato solved. Astronauts found the tomato!

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The astronauts noted that they all have “on multiple occasions lost items” in the space station due to the lack of gravity
The mystery of the lost space tomato has been solved.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) revealed in a livestream Wednesday celebrating the space station’s 25th anniversary that they finally found the missing fruit after initially blaming fellow astronaut Frank Rubio for its disappearance.

NASA's Associate Administrator Bob Cabana asked the crew near the end of the broadcast if they “hid anything” or “lost anything” that they were still looking for, to which several of the astronauts laughed.

"Well, we might have found something that someone had been looking for quite a while,” NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli said with a smile on her face.

She continued, "Our good friend Frank Rubio, who headed home, has been blamed for quite a while for eating the tomato. But we can exonerate him. We found the tomato."

According to Space.com, the mystery of the lost tomato had been a months-long inside joke between astronauts on the ISS, which started after Rubio harvested Red Robin dwarf tomatoes for the space station’s

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