Microbial survival of space vacuum and extreme ultraviolet irradiation: Strain isolation and analysis during a rocket flight

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 163-168

  Saffary, Roya ^a   Nandakumar, Renu ^a   Spencer, Dennis ^b   Robb, Frank T ^b   Davila, Joseph M ^c   Swartz, Marvin ^c   Ofman, Leon ^c,d   Thomas, Roger J ^c   DiRuggiero, Jocelyne ^a,b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme ultraviolet; Extremophile; Ionizing radiation; Space survival; Space vacuum

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; DESICCATION; GAMMA IRRADIATION; IONIZING RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; VACUUM;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; SHORT DURATION; SOUNDING ROCKET; UNMANNED;

BACILLUS; DEINOCOCCUS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; GAMMA RAYS; RADIATION TOLERANCE; SPACE FLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VACUUM; WYOMING;

BACILLUS SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEINOCOCCUS; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; HESPERIS;

EID: 0037167491     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)00953-9     Document Type: Article

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