Space: The Final Frontier for Tomatoes

By Michelle Fabio

If space is truly the final frontier for tomatoes, they can cross that one off the to-do list.

Back in 1984, over 12 million tomato seeds from the George W. Park Seed Company in Greenwood, South Carolina were sent up into space on the Space Shuttle Challenger.

There they had a little space vacation on the Long Duration Expose Facility until they were collected by the crew of Columbia six years later.
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