[Sebb767]

It's explained in the article:

> Fortunately for Spivack and the Arch Mission Foundation, spewing DNA and water bears across the moon is totally legal. NASA’s Office of Planetary Protection classifies missions based on the likelihood that their targets are of interest to our understanding of life. As such, missions destined for places like Mars are subject to more stringent sterilization processes than missions to the Moon, which has few of the necessary conditions for life and isn’t at risk of contamination. In fact, Spivack isn’t even the first to leave DNA on the moon. This honor belongs to the Apollo astronauts, who left nearly 100 bags of human feces on the lunar surface before they returned to Earth.

[initramfs]

what if the water bears made their way to the bags of feces and started to grow inside there. If the bags serves as a terrarium that produces oxygen from anaerobic microbes via photosynthesis.

[beedeebeedee]

I would watch that film. Great origin story for a new world, once Earth is wiped out

[SoftTalker]

They were however more cautious about what the Apollo astronauts might bring back from the moon. IIRC they were quarantined for a period of time after returning, at least on the early missions.