There are 96 poop bags on the moon ... And NASA wants to go get

During Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s, astronauts went to the moon and, as expected, needed to make needs. NASA's way out was that they wore a kind of diaper during the mission and, when they finally stepped on the moon, would have a bag attached to their clothes. Not to bring back these bags, the great idea was to leave the droppings in full natural satellite!

Now, 50 years later, scientists want to go back to the moon to fetch a total of 96 Apollo poop bags and thus find out if there is anything alive there.

Sounds gross? Yes, but there is a good explanation. Despite being something disgusting, human feces are composed of bacteria (about 50%), sheltering there more than a thousand species of microbes that live inside us. In short, our poop is a rich and perfect ecosystem for research.

But not only feces are filled with the bags left by the Apollo astronauts. There is also urine, vomiting, food scraps and other waste left by the first to set foot on the moon.

Now, as soon as the NASA space agency can get back to our natural satellite in person, scientists will be able to study all this earthly trash left by astronauts and find out if our microbes could survive all these years away from the earth's atmosphere. And if so, they may have survived interstellar travel as well, and may have taken their lives to other parts of the universe.

What are the discoveries we may have ahead of lunar poop bags?