In 2007, water bears became the first animal to survive in space. Newscientist.

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report that a European team of researchers sent a group of living tardigrades to
orbit the earth on the outside of a FOTON-M3 rocket for 10 days. When these
creatures returned to Earth, the scientists discovered that 68 per cent of them
lived through the ordeal.

When the tardigrades are dried out, they retract their heads and their eight legs
to shrivel into a tiny ball and enter a deep state of suspended animation that
closely resembles death. It shed almost all of the water in its body and its
metabolism rate slows down to 0.01 per cent of its normal rate. When the creature
is introduced to water at a given point in time, they are able to reanimate.

The co-founder of the Spivack thinks that they are definitely still alive on the
Moon. They believe the chances of survival for the tardigrades are extremely high,
reported the Wired.
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While some researchers are expressing their concern over the spillage of water
bears on the Moon, it’s unlikely the creatures will be able to spring back to life
without being reintroduced to water. Also, it is theoretically possible for the
tardigrades to be collected on a future moon mission, brought back to Earth, and
reanimate to study the effects of being on the Moon.

The Beresheet mission control lost communications with the spacecraft when it was
about 149 metres above the Moon’s surface. As Israel failed to soft-land on Moon,
the list of nations who have accomplished this feat stay at three which includes
Russia (the USSR), the United States, and China.

India’s Chandrayaan-2 is scheduled to soft-land on the South Pole of the lunar

surface on Septemeber 8, 2019. It recently moved into a higher orbit around the
Earth, completing five manoeuvres in space since its launch on July 22. It will now
prepare to break free from the Earth with a Trans Lunar Insertion manoeuvre on
August 14, 2019.