Missing space tomato onboard International Space Station tomato found

It takes a village to raise a child – and it takes seven astronauts to find a missing tomato in space.

Frank Rubio, NASA Astronaut and US Army Lieutenant Colonel, became a pioneer when he grew and harvested one of the first tomatoes ever grown in space in March of this year.

But when it inexplicably went missing one day, people assumed he had eaten it.

“I was pretty confident that I velcroed it where I was supposed to velcro it,” he said during a NASA briefing after his time in space. “And then I came back, and it was gone.”

Rubio had just achieved the longest single spaceflight by an American, having been in low orbit around the Earth for 371 days.

“Rubio’s journey in space embodies the essence of exploration,” a NASA statement read, graciously forgiving Rubio for losing the fruit.

Rubio grew the tomato on the International Space Station, a modular space station that collaborates with space agencies across the US, Japan, Europe, Russia and…