Pilz From NASA's Cleanroom Could Travel to Mars as a "Blind Passenger"

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Despite all decontamination: A fungus from NASA cleanrooms could survive the entire Mars journey – with explosive consequences for space research.

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NASA sterilizes its assembly chambers with protocols worthy of an operating block. Yet, a microscopic intruder slipped between the meshes of the net. NASA's white room fungus has just resisted almost everything that deep space can inflict on a cell. Twenty-seven candidates, only one holding Kasthuri Venkateswaran, microbiologist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, cultivated twenty-seven fungal strains taken from the halls where NASA assembled the Mar…