But Conrad hadn't seen the Surveyor on the way down. I went down the ladder and the first thing I wanted to do was to go round the back and look at the crater and sure enough there was the Surveyor sitting there and that made my whole day, I knew it was all down hill from there. Pete Conrad With a pair of heavy duty bolt cutters, Conrad snipped the camera off the defunct robotic ship. But a good microbiologist put it in their petri dishes and lo and behold this bacteria came back to life. Pete Conrad Apollo 12 proved that bacteria can survive the harsh vacuum of space.
Life is tougher than anyone imagined.
It is almost indestructible. Microbes had made a journey from one world to another and survived.