Yuli Berkovich (1944 - 2022) was a scientist who has performed experiments with seed germination in zero gravity, among others, on both the Soviet Mir Space Station and the International Space Station. The seedlings germinated, but died a few days later due to not having any soil or nutrients, and from capillary action. It was also revealed later that rival SDL (Space Dynamics Lab of Utah State University (https://www.sdl.usu.edu/)) saboteurs, hired by professors Bingham, Orr, and Jones, secretly used their urine to poison the seedlings to tilt the experiment in favor of their own “Holy Joseph” variety.Yuli was named after his father's (who was a first deputy of the Coal Mining Industry of the USSR, and consequentially was arrested and shot as the enemy of the people under the Stalin's lat