Deinococcus radiodurans survived an entire year outside the ISS

The environment in outer space is extremely hazardous to most life. Once in space, objects are battered with cosmic radiation, solar UV radiation, extreme vacuum, and significant temperature fluctuations. It sounds like an environment where nothing alive could survive without complex protective systems such as those used by astronauts. Despite the extreme environment, a bacteria called Deinococcus radiodurans was recently …