Organisms living outside International Space Station able to withstand extreme cosmic conditions

 

The International Space Station is more than just a home to astronauts — it also contains organisms that are exposed to the harshest space conditions outside the ISS. Space contains extreme temperatures, high levels of background radiation, micrometeoroids and the unfiltered glare of the sun. Materials and equipments on the outside of the space station are exposed to atomic oxygen (AO) and other charged particles as it orbits the Earth at the very edge of our atmosphere.