I'd ploughed into looking at the space missions a few months ago after some comments from Marc and some random blogs I'd found.
Did you know that space is bad for microbes according to NASA?
Space: A Bad Influence on Microbes?
Makes them virulent. What concerns me is that they only realised in 2003!
I've got a whole list of organisms that they've taken into space since 19somewhen, including marine sponges in 1982! and we all know how many microbes they carry...hundreds!!
What did they do with the samples once they got them home? Let them go??
Was this the reason for the shuttle springclean Niecy?
Stay tuned for the next thrilling episode of ......."moooorrrrrggggsss in spaaaaacccee"
Night my wonderful, lovery friends
Joski xxxx