This is a fascinating story and could help us to understand how life might be transported around the universe. Bacteria from the cliffs near to Beer in Devon were put on the outside of the International Space Station and left for 553 days. Remarkably, many survived the exposure to outer space! OK, so that's a long way short of the millions of years that they would need to survive to travel between planets in different solar systems...but it's a start! An interesting experiment; I wonder where it will lead us.
Your Tuesday questions are:-
- Who started out on the first successful swim across the English Channel
today in 1875? - Stephen Fry (right) was born today in 1957 and was appointed to the board of directors of which English football club in 2010?
- Who resigned as the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party today in 1991?
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