Bacteria on International Space Station
No place is completely clean! Either you roam on earth or fly to the International
space station (ISS), you will get bacteria everywhere. Consider it as dirty but
the fact is, scientist found the presence of bacteria on ISS also. Venkateswaran and his team collected samples
from ISS and two clean rooms at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL, Pasadena, CA) to study the presence of microflora. They found strong
evidence that specific human skin-associated microorganisms make a substantial
contribution to the ISS microbiome, which is not the case on Earth-based
classrooms. For example, Corynebacterium and Propionibacterium (Actinobacteria)
but not Staphylococcus (Firmicutes) species are dominant on the ISS in
terms of viability and total bacterial community composition. Their finding is
published in Open Access journal Microbiome on 27 Oct 2015.
