Across six Apollo landings, astronauts left a commonly cited 96 waste bags and containers on the Moon. Researchers have proposed retrieving one—not to clean up, but to discover whether any human microbes survived up to 57 years of lunar radiation, vacu - Space Daily

One of the strangest experiments in astrobiology has already been running for more than half a century. Nobody designed it, no instrument has monitored it, and its samples were left beneath lunar mod…