[meteorite-list] pollution

[AL Mitterling]

Hi Dave and all,

During one shuttle mission, a pallet called the long duration experiment 
  was launched and was to collect data during it's stay in space for a 
few months. Because of the Challenger explosion, and the shuttle fleet 
being grounded for sometime, it stayed in space longer than they had 
planned.

After retrieving the experiment and investigation, some of the 
investigators found that some microbes had survived in space for the 
duration of that experiment. So life can be pretty resilient even in space.

Glad to say I was down to that launch.

--AL