Cultivation of anaerobic and facultatively anaerobic bacteria from spacecraft-associated clean rooms

The cultivable microbial community of European spacecraft-associated clean rooms and the Herschel Space Observatory located therein are analyzed during assembly operations. The multiassay cultivation approach is used for the detection of several bacteria that is not cultivated from these spacial environments before and has also led to the discovery of two novel microbial species of Pseudomonas and Paenibacillus.