It lived in a vacuum, in high radiation conditions and with huge temperature fluctuations?

Moss _spores_, not living moss. Big difference! 80% viable upon return, no mention of quarantine or mutations

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46011978 2 days ago, 69 comments.

panspermia anyone

When interviewed, Moss stated: "The ambient emvironment is indeed challenging. But when I think about the toxic political discourse, collapsing rules-based global order and of course, the inevitable temperature increase past 1.5 or even 2 degC above pre-industrial state, I really don't regret my move"

Someone stick a bag of moss spores on the next Voyager please.

I know they're doing everything to keep those craft sterile, I think we should go the other way: spread life across the universe while we can.

Moss spores survived outside. The difference is significant, it's like saying "Banana trees survived in space" when it was just banana seeds...

I have survived outside of the International Space Station my whole life

What can’t Randy do?!

Now we need to selectively breed moss until we have astrophage

If Moss survived outside of the International Space Station for 9 months, then perhaps Moss might be a good candidate to take to the surface of Mars on a future Mars mission...