How far into space have living cells travelled?

Question

Is there any chance we have left some on the moon - any way they could survive on board our mars rover pods? Can they drift far from the edge of the atmosphere?

Answer 1

Well, they are traveling out of this solar system as I write this. According to Space.com, some rocket stages from the rocket they are sending to Pluto are traveling through space at speeds of 7-11 miles a second. Scientists don't know if the bacteria will survive the trip through space, but they think it would be interesting if the rocket stages landed on a planet and started to thrive. Though, they say the chances of that are very, very slim, but it would still be cool.

Here is a link to that article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20070508/sc_space/oldrocketscarrybacteriatothestars

Answer 2

during the apolo programs in the 60s a camera on one of the space craft had malfunctioned , to make a long story short they brought it back from the moon and come to find out a technition who was buliding the camera has sneezed into it and had a cold , the bacteria had survived the trip. scientists were able to add a little water and the bacteria came back to life like nothing ever happened, saw it on history channel !

Answer 3

There are probably a few surviving bacteria on Voyager 1 about 9 billion miles out.

Answer 4

One of the Apollo missions landed near a lunar probe of ours (Surveyor) and they brought the camera. They found streptococcus on the camera which grew after it was placed in favorable earth conditions.

Answer 5

so a approaches the furthest we've long previous is around 3 hundred,000 kilometers that's a coarse discern for the gap from the Earth to the Moon. If we had the skill to commute quicker in area or lengthen our nutrition and oxygen furnish would would desire to bypass plenty added.