[meteorite-list] pollution

From: AL Mitterling <almitt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Jul 18 19:37:54 2005
Message-ID: <42DC3D4E.4090504_at_kconline.com>

Hi Dave and all,

During one shuttle mission, a pallet called the long duration experiment
  was launched and was to collect data during it's stay in space for a
few months. Because of the Challenger explosion, and the shuttle fleet
being grounded for sometime, it stayed in space longer than they had
planned.

After retrieving the experiment and investigation, some of the
investigators found that some microbes had survived in space for the
duration of that experiment. So life can be pretty resilient even in space.

Glad to say I was down to that launch.

--AL
Received on Mon 18 Jul 2005 07:37:50 PM PDT