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Scientists just opened the lid to NASA’s asteroid sample canister
(arstechnica.com)
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It would be a trip if some low-cell organism that humans have No known exposure to and it went viral or bacterial😳
Eh it'd soon come into contact with our trillions of different bacteria and viruses living across countless species and promptly die.
We have the home-town advantage here.
I'd bet on my immeasurable lactobacillus hoards over a starving, freezing colony of space bacteria any day
That's one of the reasons they have it in a totally sealed atmosphere. The other more important reason is to make sure anything we find in the sample is actually from the astroid rather than from earth.