Apollo Astronauts Left Their Poop On The Moon. We Gotta Go Back For That S**t
Which means the human feces — along with bags of urine, food waste, vomit, and other waste in the bags, which also might contain microbial life — on the moon represents a natural, though unintended, experiment. After Neil Armstrong descended from the Eagle lander, becoming the first human to set foot on the moon, the very first picture he took on the surface shows, yes, the moon’s cratered surface, but also a white jettisoned trash bag (or jett bag). The case that the poop bacteria are dead
The question scientists are asking of whether anything is alive in those jett bags, while seemingly silly, may lead to important insights about the extreme conditions life can endure.
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