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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Tomatoes from Space ?
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Date: 26 Sep 90 21:44:08 GMT
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In <3330031@hpindda.cup.hp.com> mears@hpindda.cup.hp.com (David Mears) writes:
> I recall seeing on the news within the last couple of weeks where a guy
> took some of the tomatoes which grew from one of the spaced plants and
> he entered them in a judging at the State Fair, or 4H meeting, or
> something like that.

I saw a blurb about this on CNN the other day.  The tomatoes were
grown at the Kansas State Cosmosphere in Hutchinson Kansas.  They
won the award at the Kansas State Fair.  I would assume that the 
space campers tended to the plants while they were growing.

-john-

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