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Given the diversity of microbes that live in biofilms in harsh environments on the Earth, it is logical to hypothesize that, if microbes inhabit other bodies in the Universe, there are also biofilms on those bodies. The Biofilm Organisms Surfing Space experiment was conducted as part of the EXPOSE-R2 mission on the International Space Station. The experiment was an international collaboration designed to perform a comparative study regarding the survival of biofilms versus planktonic cells of various microorganisms, exposed to space and Mars-like conditions. The objective was to determine whether there are lifestyle-dependent differences to cope with the unique mixture of stress factors, including desiccation, temperature oscillations, vacuum, or a Mars-like gas atmosphere and pressure in combination with extraterrestrial or Mars-like ultraviolet (UV) radiation residing during the long-term space mission. 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