Bizarre new bacteria discovered in space agency 'clean rooms'

Bizarre new bacteria discovered in space agency 'clean rooms'

Nov 27th 2013, 15:44, by Katie Drummond

They're supposed to be the most sterile spots on Earth: space agency "clean rooms," where engineers prepare vessels for launch, are rigorously washed, scrubbed, and heated to eradicate microbes. So ESA scientists were surprised when, in 2009, they discovered within a clean room an unusual bacteria only seen once before — two years earlier and 2,500 miles away inside a NASA clean room at the Kennedy Space Center.

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