Airborne Spores in the Study of Harsh Environments

Abstract

Man's interest in space travel can be traced back to the second century AD when Lucian, the first "science fiction" writer wrote of a trip to the moon. Up until 1898, most science fiction involved man and his effects on space. Then in 1989, E G Wells in his classic "War of the Worlds" described the effects of earth microogranisms on life from outer space, hence the idea that interplantery encounters might involve hostile life forms.