International Space Station Crew Finds A Long-Lost Tomato

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Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli announced that the International Space Station crew found a tomato lost by fellow NASA astronaut Frank Rubio after the harvest during a previous mission that lasted a year in space.  Credit: NASA

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00:00You know, when I left the space station, Node 1 was pretty Spartan and immaculate.

00:05It's kind of accumulated a lot of stuff over the years.

00:08And with 275 launches to ISS, have you guys hit anything for future crews

00:14or lost something up there that you're still looking for?

00:17Well, we might have found something that someone had been looking for for quite a while.

00:37Our good friend Frank Rubio, who headed home, has been blamed for quite a while for eating the tomato.

00:45But we can exonerate him.

00:49We found the tomatoes.

00:53Awesome, awesome.

00:54I think we'll have probably one more question,

00:57and then we'll probably hand it back over to Capcom and let you guys get back to work.

01:00But, you know, when you return to Earth, what's the one thing that,

01:06and maybe there's more than one thing, that you're going to want to explain to people here on Earth,

01:11your favorite memory of the International Space Station?

01:28I think it's a beautiful view of the Earth from the International Space Station,

01:34so that we recognize that we need to nurture the mother planet, Earth.

01:44Awesome. Thank you.

01:46Hey, just I'll say a couple words, and I'll hand it over to Bob.

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