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Pastimes : IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: kinkblot who wrote (438)2/7/2006 10:47:53 AM
From: kinkblot  Respond to of 480
 
Lichen survives in space

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spaceflight.esa.int

low-Earth orbit; exposed for a total 14.6 days ("exposed to vacuum, wide fluctuations of temperature, the complete spectrum of solar UV light and bombarded with cosmic radiation")

Analysis post flight showed a full rate of survival and an unchanged ability for photosynthesis.

The unmanned Foton capsules are based on the Russian Vostok {tr. East} capsule, in which Yuri Gagarin was put into orbit in 1961.