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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by mkl on Friday June 28, 2019 @08:05PM (#20309885)
There were probably microorganisms and fungi on Sputnik, and before that, things that didn't orbit, like a V2 rocket in 1944: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MW_18014
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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by ncmncm on Saturday June 29, 2019 @10:39PM (#20316024)
Laika was the first organism that we knew was alive in space. For a time.

At the time, and for decades after, everyone assumed anything on the outside would dessicate and die immediately.

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Re:The International Space Station is growing mould, inside ... by bufferoverflow on Saturday June 29, 2019 @08:40AM (#20312251)
And long before that, all kinds of organisms lifted up by natural explosion - asteroids, comets, volcanoes.
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