Abstract: Let’s face it: wherever we go, we will inevitably carry along the little critters that live in and on us. Conventional wisdom has long held that it’s unlikely those critters could survive the space environment, but in 2007 microscopic animals called Tardigrades survived exposure to space and in 2008 Cyanobacteria lived for 548 days outside the International Space Station (ISS). But what about the organisms we might reasonably expect a crewed spacecraft to leak or vent? Do we even know what th…