From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Mon Aug 25 1997 - 12:44:26 MDT
Davin C Engil Enigl@aol.com
> Spores *do* have a long survival. Some one on the list found
>data that spores survived with out count reduction in viability on
>the Moon. The spores were recovered by a manned space mission, I
>believe.
I was that poster, here is the relevant part:
>From 01/02/97
>Apollo 12 visited the landing site of Surveyor 3, and numerous
>parts of the spacecraft were returned to earth. As I recall inside
>a camera lens a spore was found that when placed in a suitable
>growing media was once again viable.
>The NASA report on the returned materials is NASA SP-284, which is
>unfortunately not available on the WWW.
Brian
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