TABLE 1.

Detailed reviews of spaceflight experiments with microorganisms

Description	Reference
Detailed discussion of early space through 1974, covering flight observations including lunar exploration missions and astronaut microbial flora	95
Comprehensive listing of all spaceflight experiments with microorganisms through 1990	22
Detailed discussion of mycological studies performed during flight though 1990	104
Discussion summarizing the organisms which have flown and a synopsis of the results through 1991	Cioletti et al.a
Organized synopsis of organisms, missions, and results, as well as perspective on limitations of flight and flight experiments	78
Recent and thorough review of flight experiments, with insight into the proposed mechanisms behind the effects observed in microgravity	60

^aL. A. Cioletti, D. L. Pierson, and S. K. Mishra, Abstr. 21st Int. Conf. Environ. Syst., abstr. 911512, 1991.