title: Deposition of extreme-tolerant bacterial strains isolated during different phases of Phoenix spacecraft assembly in a public culture collection.
abstract: Extreme-tolerant bacteria (82 strains; 67 species) isolated during various assembly phases of the Phoenix spacecraft were permanently archived within the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service Culture Collection in Peoria, Illinois. This represents the first microbial collection of spacecraft-associated surfaces within the United States to be deposited into a freely available, government-funded culture collection. Archiving extreme-tolerant microorganisms from NASA mission(s) will provide opportunities for scientists who are involved in exploring microbes that can tolerate extreme conditions.
authors.affiliation: 1 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, California.
authors.forename: Kasthuri
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Venkateswaran
authors.forename: Parag
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vaishampayan
authors.forename: James N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Benardini
authors.forename: Alejandro P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Rooney
authors.forename: J Andy
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Spry
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D001419:Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D018070:Biological Specimen Banks; D004866:Equipment Contamination; D014644:Genetic Variation; D007087:Illinois; D010802:Phylogeny; D017150:Public Sector; D018531:Spacecraft; D014481:United States; D016885:United States Department of Agriculture