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**Acknowledgements**  The authors would like to thank the many people who contributed to Project MERCCURI and to the processing of these cultures including Pop Warner, Science Cheerleaders, Nanoracks LLC, Space Florida, SciStarter, Jennifer Flanagan, Ruth Lee, Hannah Holland-Moritz, Alex Alexiev, Madison Dunitz, and Holly Bik. In particular, thanks to Carl Carruthers at Nanoracks LLC who shepherded the payload through all challenges. Project MERCCURI was funded by the "microBEnet" grant to JAE from the  Alfred P. Sloan Foundation through their as part of the  "Microbiology of the Built Environment" program. Additional support came from Space Florida through the International Space Station Research Competition (ISSRC).