[FPSPACE] mushrooms discovered growing on ISS ???????

[agzak at optonline.net]

I suspect it is a mistranslation: in Russian "mushroom" and "mold" is almost the same word.

Anatoly Zak
http://www.russianspaceweb.com

----- Original Message -----
From: James Oberg <jameseoberg at comcast.net>
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008 5:57 pm
Subject: [FPSPACE] mushrooms discovered growing on ISS  ???????
To: fpspace at friends-partners.org

> What's with this Moscow mass media madness in the last few hours 
> about "accidental mushrooms" found growing in a damp corner of the 
> Service Module? Is Lonchakov having a joke? 
> 
> Apparently it is about a just-released scientific paper by an IBMP 
> expert on microbial infestations on space stations...
> 
> The coverage, however, is a little more sensationalistic...
> 
> http://www.gazeta.ru/news/social/2008/11/20/n_1298586.shtml and
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.grani.ru/Events/p.144308.html
>