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**Introduction**  Beautiful context here From 2012-2014 we conducted a nationwide citizen science project, [Project MERCURRI](http://spacemicrobes.org/), aimed at raising public awareness of microbiology and research on board the International Space Station (ISS). One of the goals was to examine how a number of non-pathogenic, built environment associated microbes would grow on board the ISS compared to on earth. Most previous work of this nature has focused on pathogens, and much less attention has been paid to the "normal" microbes that surround us.