Two NASA astronauts are spacewalking later to collect living organisms from the outside of the International Space Station. Those extreme organisms could have been there longer than you think and may help us understand if there's life in our solar system.
Two astronauts are set to exit the International Space Station later on a mission to gather living organisms growing on the facility.
missions exploring the solar system and at the University of Oxford. 'They're not necessarily pristine environments, so could have just hitched a ride on the way up, no problem at all.' The organisms could have also been released from the space station over the years, according to Dr Howett. 'When we do a , there's an airlock. We lose some of the air from inside the space station. 'Perhaps some of that air also carries with it some of these organisms.
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