Which will survive? A microorganism zoo in the stratosphere

Cologne, Germany (SPX) Jan 26, 2020

In September 2019, astrobiologists from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) sent an entire 'zoo' of microorganisms, such as bacteria and moulds, on a nine-hour journey up to 30 kilometres above Earth. They travelled under a stratospheric balloon operated by the US space agency NASA for the 'Microbes in Atmosphere for Radiation, Survival and Biologic