An astronaut plucked a tomato grown in space and lost it. About it writes CNN.
American astronaut Frank Rubio was at the centre of a curious incident on the ISS. He plucked one of the tomatoes that scientists managed to grow inside the space station to demonstrate it during a presentation, but later could not find the fruit. “I put it in a little bag because one of my colleagues was doing an online event with school kids, and I thought it would be cool to show the tomato to the kids and say, ‘Guys, this is the first tomato grown in space.’ I was pretty sure I velcroed it where it needed to be velcroed … But when I came back, the bag was gone,” Rubio told an October press conference.
In the microgravity of space, anything not attached to the station’s surfaces can float away from its place and get lost in the nooks and crannies of the football-field-sized orbiting laboratory or one of its labyrinthine corridors.
