A couple of hockey pucks
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 3:45 am
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002977/ wrote: The Planetary Society Blog
By Emily Lakdawalla Mar. 25, 2011
Phobos LIFE gets a ride on Endeavour as Shuttle LIFE!
<<The Planetary Society is contributing this thing called the Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment (LIFE) to Russia's Phobos sample return mission -- it's basically a sealed puck with dormant microbes inside that'll fly to Mars and back in the return capsule, and biologists will take a look to see what damage the little bugs suffered during their space journey. In a Catch-22 that is central to the problem of getting new tech into space, it's easier to launch stuff to space if it's already been launched to space before. The Society now has the opportunity to fly LIFE to space before it gets put on Phobos-Grunt by flying it on -- amazingly (to me anyway) -- one of the final Shuttle flights, Endeavour's upcoming launch.>>
I think a microbe has a good chance of survival. 
