After spending almost two hundred and three days in space and orbiting the Earth more than thirty-two hundred times, samples from Hungary’s first space plant experiment, called VITAPRIC program, have returned from the International Space Station (ISS) to Debrecen. The researchers of the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management at the University of Debrecen received the experimental materials for their current scientific project from astronaut Tibor Kapu on Monday at UD’s Biodrome, home to the space plant experiment program named HUNOR and the “birthplace” of our university’s space peppers. For the experts in Debrecen, this marked the beginning of a new phase in their research activities.