Moss survived outside of the International Space Station for 9 months (livescience.com)

It lived in a vacuum, in high radiation conditions and with huge temperature fluctuations?

Moss _spores_, not living moss. Big difference! 80% viable upon return, no mention of quarantine or mutations

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46011978 2 days ago, 69 comments.

panspermia anyone

When interviewed, Moss stated: "The ambient emvironment is indeed challenging. But when I think about the toxic political discourse, collapsing rules-based global order and of course, the inevitable temperature increase past 1.5 or even 2 degC above pre-industrial state, I really don't regret my move"

Someone stick a bag of moss spores on the next Voyager please.

I know they're doing everything to keep those craft sterile, I think we should go the other way: spread life across the universe while we can.

Moss spores survived outside. The difference is significant, it's like saying "Banana trees survived in space" when it was just banana seeds...

I have survived outside of the International Space Station my whole life

What can’t Randy do?!

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Now we need to selectively breed moss until we have astrophage

If Moss survived outside of the International Space Station for 9 months, then perhaps Moss might be a good candidate to take to the surface of Mars on a future Mars mission...