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Alien life? Bacteria ‘that had not been there’ found on ISS hull, Russian cosmonaut says
Published time: 27 Nov, 2017 08:20 Edited time: 27 Nov, 2017 08:21
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Living bacteria were found on the surface of the International Space Station (ISS), and they might have extraterrestrial origins, Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov said. The microorganisms will be studied further on Earth.
Shkaplerov, an ISS expedition flight engineer who will take his third trip to the ISS in December as part of the Expedition 54 crew, said that scientists found living bacteria while they were taking samples from the surface of the station. Speaking to TASS, he said that the microorganisms might have come from outer space.

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“Bacteria that had not been there during the launch of the ISS module were found on the swabs,” Shkaplerov said. “So they have flew from somewhere in space and settled on the outside hull.” The cosmonaut added that the samples are currently being studied and seem to be safe.

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Shkaplerov said that some microorganisms from Earth also survived in a vacuum and differences in temperature from -150C to 150C.

These bacteria accidentally entered outer space during the ‘Test’ and ‘Biorisk’ experiments, in which special pads are installed on the ISS hull and left there for several years to determine how the material is affected by the conditions in space.

However, traces of bacteria originating on Earth – from Madagascar – and plankton from the Barents Sea were earlier found during a ‘Test’ experiment in May. Scientists explained that they got there due to the ionosphere lift phenomenon, in which substances from our planet’s surface rise to the upper atmospheric layer. Following the discovery, Russian space agency Roscosmos along with other scientists suggested raising the upper border of the biosphere to 400 kilometers from the current altitude of 20 kilometers.

 

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NASA Put Dangerous Bacteria on a Satellite to Find Treatments for Future Space Travelers
By Meghan Bartels On 11/27/17 at 10:40 AM
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Tech & Science NASA E. Coli antibiotic resistance
Traveling in space makes our immune systems weaker—and as if that weren't bad enough already, it might also make bacteria better able to resist the drugs we use to beat them back. That's why several NASA projects have focused on studying how bacteria behave in space. The newest such project is called EcAMSat and is now running after having been launched to the International Space Station earlier this month.

Onboard that satellite, which is about as large as a shoebox, are a bunch of microscopic critters called E. coli, an incredibly common bacterium that, under the right circumstances, can cause urinary tract infections. It's just one of the bacteria that can make life onboard the International Space Station—and any future spaceflight missions—uncomfortable.

Those E. coli were dormant for the launch itself, but the experiment, which runs basically by itself, is slowly waking them up by warming them up and feeding them. And there are two separate types of E. coli on board: one a basic variety and the other a variety that carries a natural gene that helps it defeat common antibiotic drugs.

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The experiment NASA sent into space to test antibiotic resistance. NASA/Ames Research Center/Dominic Hart

Next, the set-up will expose the bacteria to antibiotics at a range of different doses and see how they fare. The experiment will measure bacteria survival by watching a dye included with the E. coli, which changes color from blue to pink as bacteria thrive. The whole thing weighs just 23 pounds and could fit in a backpack and doesn't need any cues from here on Earth to do its job.

The results will help scientists begin to understand just how much antibiotic is needed to stop an infection in space. EcAMSat is a pretty brief mission, with the satellite being destroyed within about a year and a half. But it is just one piece of NASA's ongoing effort to understand how bacteria behave differently in space than on the ground, in conjunction with their work studying how human bodies are affected by space travel.

Scientists know from studying astronauts who have visited the International Space Station that the steep reduction in gravity tends to interfere with our immune system, making humans more susceptible to bugs. But the same stress appears to give bacteria a leg up—and in conjunction with the antibiotic resistance that has been flourishing among all kinds of bacteria, that could be very bad news for future space travelers. EcAMSat is the first step to figuring out just how much existing medicine can even the playing field.

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