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The Hunt for high-altitude Microorganisms

May 29, 2012

XCOR Aerospace's Lynx spacecraft

An open call for High Altitude Astrobiology Challenge, has been announced by the United States Rocket Academy, for entries in a citizen science project, that will attempt to collect samples of microbes from Earth’s atmosphere at the edge of space.   Image above: XCOR Aerospace‘s Lynx spacecraft concept.

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