A dataset provided by the European Space Agency

Name Exobiological Unit - Exposure of Biological Samples to Space Radiation
Operational Nomenclature Exobiological Unit
URL https://hreda.esac.esa.int/hreda/#/pages/investigation;investigationAcronym=ExobiologicalUnit_RETR
DOI https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-yogywcm
Platform Retrievable Facilities
HRE-E3P Category Biology
Mission EURECA
Keywords ESA Human and Robotic Exploration data, HREDA dataset, Human and Robotic Exploration Data Archive, ESA exploration mission data, human spaceflight experiment data, robotic exploration telemetry dataset, International Space Station experiment data, ISS Columbus module data, microgravity research dataset, life sciences space experiment data, space physiology measurements dataset, radiation exposure measurements spaceflight, life support systems performance data, closed-loop environmental control data, ECLSS telemetry dataset, astronaut biomedical monitoring data, space habitat systems engineering data, robotic surface operations dataset, planetary exploration robotics data, lunar exploration technology demonstration data, Mars analog experiment dataset, in-situ resource utilization ISRU experiment data, space systems engineering telemetry, mission operations engineering data, payload performance dataset, calibrated experiment data products, time-series telemetry data, spaceflight sensor measurements, ESA exploration science archive data, long-duration spaceflight research dataset
Team Coordinator Name Gerda Horneck
Version 1.0
Team Members ExobiologicalUnit_RETR
Publication GH Taylor, J Spizizen, BG Foster, PA Volz, Horst Bücker, RC Simmonds, AM Heimpel, EV Benton, 1974, A descriptive analysis of the Apollo 16 microbial response to space environment experiment, BioScience, 24, 9, 505-511, DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1296886

H Tanooka, Nobuo Munakata, S Kataha, 1978, Mutation induction with UV- and X-radiation in spores and vegetative cells of Bacillus subtilis, Mutation Research, Vol. 49, 179-186

CS Cox, 1993, Role of water molecules in bacteria and viruses, Origins of Life, Vol. 23, 29-36

Gerda Horneck, 1981, Survival of microorganisms in space: a review, Advances in Space Research, Vol. 14, No. 1, 39-48

Gerda Horneck, Horst Bücker, Klaus Dose, KD Martens, A Bieger-Dose, HD Mennigmann, Günther Reitz, H Requardt, P Weber, 1984, Microorganisms and biomolecules in space environment. Experiment ES 029 on Spacelab 1, Advances in Space Research, Vol. 4, No. 10, 19-27

Gerda Horneck, André Brack, 1992, Study of the origin, evolution and distribution of life with emphasis on exobiology experiments in Earth orbit, Advances in Space Biology and Medicine, Vol. 42, 229-262, SL Bonting, JAI Press, Greenwich, CT

Gerda Horneck, Horst Bücker, Günther Reitz, H Requardt, Klaus Dose, KD Martens, HD Mennigmann, P Weber, 1984, Microorganisms in the Space Environment, Science, 225, 4658, 226-228, DOI: 10.1126/science.225.4658.226

D Labs, H Neckel, PC Simon, G Thuillier, 1987, Ultraviolet solar irradiance measurement from 200 to 358 nm during Spacelab 1 mission, Solar Physics, Vol. 107, 203-219

HD Mennigmann, 1989, Exobiology: results of space flight missions, Advances in Space Research, Vol. 9, No. 6, 3-12

Gerda Horneck, André Brack, Jean Cadet, Klaus Dose, H Fritz-Niggli, Jürgen Kiefer, JJ Broerse, Francois Raulin, Günther Reitz, K Roessler, JU Schott, 1989, ERA Follow-on Scientific Study, ESA Contract No. 8116/88/F/BZ(SC) ESA, Paris 1989

C Lindberg, Gerda Horneck, 1991, Action spectra for survival and spore spore photoproduct formation of Bacillus subtilis irradiated with short-wavelength (200-300 nm) UV at atmospheric pressure and in vacuo, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, Vol. 11, 69-80

Gerda Horneck, 1995, Biological responses to space: results of the experiment Exobiological Unit of ERA on EURECA I, Adv. Space Res., Vol. 16, No. 8, 105-118

Gerda Horneck, 1995, Exobiology, the study of the origin, evolution and distribution of life within the context of cosmic evolution: a review, Planetary and space science, Vol. 43, No. 1-2, 189-217

Gerda Horneck, 1993, Responses of Bacillus subtilis spores to space environment: results from experiment in space, Origins of Life, Vol. 23, 37-52

S Okubo, T Yanagida, 1968, Isolation of a suppressor mutant in Bacillus subtilis, The Journal of Bacteriology, Vol. 95, 1187-1188

KG Gass, TC Hill, M Goulian, BS Strauss, NR Cozzarelli, 1971, Altered deoxyribonucleic acid polymerase activity in a methyl methane-sulfonate-sensitive mutant of Bacillus subtilis, The Journal of Bacteriology, Vol. 108, 364-374

K Baltschukat, Gerda Horneck, 1991, Responses to accelerated heavy ions of spores of Bacillus subtilis of different repair capacity, Radiation and Environmental Biophysics, Vol. 30, 87-103

Gerda Horneck, Horst Bücker, Günther Reitz, 1994, Long-term survival of bacterial spores in space, Advances in Space Research, Vol. 14, No. 10, 41-45

Günther Reitz, W Atwell, R Beaujean, JW Kern, 1995, Dosimetric results on EURECA, Advances in Space Research, 16, 8, 131-137

Klaus Dose, A Bieger-Dose, M Labusch, M Gill, 1992, Survival in extreme dryness and DNA-single-strand breaks, Advances in Space Research, Vol. 12, No. 4, 221-229

Jörg Wehner, Gerda Horneck, 1995, Effects of vacuum-UV and UV-C radiations on dry E. coli plasmid pUC19: I. Inactivation, lacZ- mutation induction and strand breaks, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, Vol. 29, No. 1, 77-85

Gerda Horneck, Ute Eschweiler, Petra Rettberg, Jörg Wehner, Günther Reitz, JU Schott, K Willimek, Karsten Strauch, Klaus Dose, A Bieger-Dose, S Risi, O Kerz, A Klein, Biological responses to extraterrestrial solar UV radiation and space vacuum, RD UVRAD, Proceedings of the German Spacelab Mission D-2, Norderney, 14-16 March 1994, Köln
Temporal Coverage 1992-08-02T00:00:00Z/1993-07-01T00:00:00Z
Mission Description The HRE Data Archive (HREDA) collects information and data of investigations funded or co-funded by ESA’s Directorate for Human and Robotic Exploration (HRE) and performed on microgravity and ground-based facilities since 1972.
Creator Contact https://hreda.esac.esa.int/hreda/#/pages/help/contact
Date Published 2025-11-07T13:37:43Z
Last Update 2026-07-09
Publisher And Registrant European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines European Space Agency, Gerda Horneck, 2025, 'Exobiological Unit', 1.0, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-yogywcm
Rights Data hosted in the ESA Space Science Archives are distributed under the CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO license.