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The China Exo-Ecosystem Space Experiment — hosted on the Tiangong Space Station — aims to explore the ability of microbes to survive in space.

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  1. Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Duo Cui, Siyao Yang, Xiuzhu Dong & Zhu Liu

  2. China Institute of Ocean Engineering (Tsingdao), Beijing, China

    Duo Cui

  3. State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Lingyan Li & Xiuzhu Dong

  4. College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Lingyan Li

  5. Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

    Meng Zhang & Yeqing Sun

  6. Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

    Tao Zhang & Qing Tian

  7. Department of Clinical Laboratory, Hubei No.3 People’s Hospital of Jianghan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

    Xuping Tian

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Cui, D., Li, L., Yang, S. et al. In pursuit of life beyond Earth. Nat Astron 7, 1004–1005 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-023-02033-6

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