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Correction to: Astrobiology 2019; 19(6):730–756
A Lunar Microbial Survival (LMS) model (Schuerger
et al., 2019) was developed to estimate the persistence of
spacecraft bacteria over long periods of time on the Moon.
Recently, we were extending the LMS model to include
predictions for microbial survival on interplanetary spacecraft (Moores and Schuerger, 2020) and detected errors in
Eqs. [2.a] and [2.b] in the original LMS paper. The following text describes the errors and how the corrected
equations and MatLab programs changed the results given
in Table 2 and Figure 5