Space-flown life

Tardigrades (), also known as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them ' . In 1776, the Italian biologist Lazzaro Spallanzani named them Tardigrada', which means 'slow walkers'.

species of Old World monkey

species of plant

species of arachnid

Kalanchoe ( ), (also called "kalanchöe" or "kalanchoë"), is a genus of about 125 species of tropical, succulent plants in the stonecrop family Crassulaceae, mainly native to Madagascar and tropical Africa. A Kalanchoe species was one of the first plants to be sent into space, sent on a resupply to the Soviet Salyut 6 space station in 1979.

species of mammal

species of plant

thumb|Mealworms, larvae of Tenebrio molitor, illustrated by Des Helmore

Chinese lunar lander

species of reptile

species of mammal

genus of crustaceans that inhabit saltwater lakes

species of fish

species of fungus

a non-human animal launched into space for scientific reasons

species of mammal

, kyouna (京菜), Japanese mustard greens, or spider mustard is a cultivar of Brassica rapa var. niposinica.

species of tardigrade

species of mollusc

tree grown from one of the 500 seeds taken into orbit around the Moon by Stuart Roosa during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971

overview about plants in space

thumb|C57BL/6, female, 22 weeks old

free-flying experiment platform orbited by the Space Shuttle

NASA satellite program

BioSentinel is a low-cost CubeSat spacecraft on an astrobiology mission that uses budding yeast to detect, measure, and compare the impact of deep space radiation on DNA repair over long time beyond low Earth orbit.

Piophila is a genus of small flies which includes the species known as the cheese fly. Both Piophila species feed on carrion, including human corpses.

thumb|Chroococcidiopsis thermalis can photosynthesize in far-red light, and might be suitable for future Mars colonists.

species of fungus

The O/OREOS (Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses) is a NASA automated CubeSat nanosatellite laboratory approximately the size of a loaf of bread that contains two separate astrobiology experiments on board. Developed by the Small Spacecraft Division at NASA Ames Research Center, the spacecraft was successfully launched as a secondary payload on STP-S26 led by the Space Test Program of the United States Air Force on a Minotaur IV launch vehicle from Kodiak Island, Alaska on 20 November 2010, at 01:25:00 UTC.

variety of basil

species of fungus