Across six Apollo landings, astronauts left a commonly cited 96 waste bags and containers on the Moon. Researchers have proposed retrieving one—not to clean up, but to discover whether any human microbes survived up to 57 years of lunar radiation, vacu - Space Daily
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Across six Apollo landings, astronauts left a commonly cited 96 waste bags and containers on the Moon. Researchers have proposed retrieving one—not to clean up, but to discover whether any human microbes survived up to 57 years of lunar radiation, vacu - Space Daily

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Apollo’s discarded jettison bags could test whether any viable human microbes or readable biological traces survived decades of radiation, vacuum and thermal cycling on the Moon.