{"id":57761,"date":"2017-05-28T22:02:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T05:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/russia-thinks-microorganisms-may-be-living-outside-the-space-station"},"modified":"2017-06-02T14:01:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T21:01:11","slug":"russia-thinks-microorganisms-may-be-living-outside-the-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/russia-thinks-microorganisms-may-be-living-outside-the-space-station","title":{"rendered":"Russia thinks microorganisms may be living outside the space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russia-thinks-microorganisms-may-be-living-outside-the-space-station.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>May 26 (UPI) \u2014 Officials with Russia\u2019s space agency, Roscosmos, say their scientists have identified plankton and other microorganisms among dust samples collected from the outside of the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe micrometeorites and comet dust that settle on the ISS surface may contain biogenic substance of extra-terrestrial origin in its natural form,\u201d Roscosmos officials <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/tass.com\/science\/947789\" target=\"_blank\">said in a news release<\/a>. \u201cThe ISS surface is possibly a unique and easily available collector and keeper of comet substance and, possibly, of biomaterial of extra-terrestrial origin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NASA officials said they couldn\u2019t confirm the story.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2017\/05\/26\/Russia-thinks-microorganisms-may-be-living-outside-the-space-station\/9181495811088\/\">http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2017\/05\/26\/Russia-thinks-mic...495811088\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 26 (UPI) \u2014 Officials with Russia\u2019s space agency, Roscosmos, say their scientists have identified plankton and other microorganisms among dust samples collected from the outside of the International Space Station. \u201cThe micrometeorites and comet dust that settle on the ISS surface may contain biogenic substance of extra-terrestrial origin in its natural form,\u201d Roscosmos officials [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57761","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57940,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57761\/revisions\/57940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}