ECOLOGY AND THERMAL INACTIVATION OF MICROBES IN AND ON INTERPLANETARY SPACE VEITCLE COMPONENTS Thirty-eighth Quarterly Report of Progress

摘要

In the last quarterly report, the resoles demonstrated that microbial isolates from "fallout strip" experiments could be subcultured, grown, and harvested as spore crops and still maintain their heat resistance. The Cape Kennedy isolate 4-6 (Bacillus brevis) spores, in particular, was the most heat resistant of these three hardy spores ex-amined.