{"id":111727,"date":"2020-08-21T16:24:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T23:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/surviving-bacteria-in-space"},"modified":"2020-08-21T16:24:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T23:24:38","slug":"surviving-bacteria-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/surviving-bacteria-in-space","title":{"rendered":"Surviving bacteria in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/surviving-bacteria-in-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research has shown that bacteria are surprisingly resistant organisms, both on Earth and in space, especially when they form \u2018biofilms\u2019. The relative isolation of astronaut crews poses a particular challenge to the field of biohazard management and this will only increase for future missions to the Moon and Mars. This article, based on a presentation at the Asgardia Space Science &amp; Investment Congress (ASIC) in Darmstadt, Germany, in October, explains some of the issues and describes the state of play in this research.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The potential of ionising radiation to manage biofilm contamination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research has shown that bacteria are surprisingly resistant organisms, both on Earth and in space, especially when they form \u2018biofilms\u2019. The relative isolation of astronaut crews poses a particular challenge to the field of biohazard management and this will only increase for future missions to the Moon and Mars. This article, based on a presentation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}