Microbial survival in space shuttle crash |
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| Authors: | McLean Robert J C Welsh Allana K Casasanto Valerie A |
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| Affiliation: | a Department of Biology, Texas State University-San Marcos, 601 University Drive, San Marcos, TX 78676, USA
b Instrumentation Technology Associates Inc., 110 Pickering Way, Suite 100, Exton, PA 19341, USA |
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| Abstract: | A slow growing, heat resistant bacterium, identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing as Microbispora sp., was recovered from the wreckage of the ill-fated space shuttle Columbia (STS-107). As this organism survived disintegration of the space craft, heat of reentry, and impact, it supports the possibility of a natural mechanism for the interplanetary spread of life by meteorites. |
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| Keywords: | Exobiology Meteorites |
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