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Scientific American NASA Will Map Every Living Thing on the International Space Station Surveying the billions of tiny microbial astronauts that dwell within the orbital laboratory could help us prepare for human voyages to Mars Print NASA astronaut Kate Rubins works onboard the International Space Station (ISS) in this photograph from October 19, 2020. Her tasks during her mission include collecting samples to map the ISS’s microbiome. Credit: NASA Advertisement Astronauts never travel to space alone. Each person voyaging off-world is accompanied by up to 100 trillion bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms, any number of which could jeopardize human health. Yet we are still mostly in the dark about how these communities of microscopic hitchhikers react to microgravity. We do not even know the full spectrum of spacefaring species living onboard the International Space Station (ISS). New studies, however, are designed to change that. Last month astronauts collected samples

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