Moss Spores Survive 9 Months Outside ISS

alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Inspired by moss’s resilience, researchers sent moss sporophytes — reproductive structures that encase spores — to the most extreme environment yet: space. Their results, published in the journal iScience on November 20, show that more than 80% of the spores survived nine months outside of the International Space Station (ISS) and made it back to Earth still capable of reproducing, demonstrating for the first time that an…