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There were probably microorganisms and fungi on Sputnik, and before that, things that didn't orbit, like a V2 rocket in 1944: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MW_1
by mkl 7y ago
There were probably microorganisms and fungi on Sputnik, and before that, things that didn't orbit, like a V2 rocket in 1944: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MW_18014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MW_18014
- bufferoverflow 7y agoAnd long before that, all kinds of organisms lifted up by natural explosion - asteroids, comets, volcanoes.
- ncmncm 7y agoLaika was the first organism that we knew was alive in space. For a time. At the time, and for decades after, everyone assumed anything on the outside would dessicate and die immediately.