If we redefine our community to include tardigrades the outlook improves considerably.

Example: a blog critiquing Mars colonization pointed out that humans cannot even live at the summit of Everest, and there is no "non-native microbial life" there. Notice the caveat: "non-native?" Guess who else did:

Tardigrade in Hawaiian shirt, wearing pixelated sunglasses

Honestly, which achievement would be considered more impressive-- Neil Armstrong setting foot on the Moon, or me getting there first because I was stuck to the bottom of his boot?

Well, guess who is now watching you navigate to the Wikipedia tardigrade article[1]:

Tardigrade lowers its pixelated glasses

Hell, in the five minutes that I've imagined them joining the team we've gone from

"never come into contact with the regolith"

to

"if you happen to come into contact with the regolith, remember: stop, drop, and roll."[2]

1: Ok, a tardigrade was probably not on his boot for the first Moon walk. But suppose we gently placed some the surface of the Moon, and observed their reaction...

two tardigrades pointing at you navigating back to Wikipedia

2: https://sciworthy.com/could-tardigrades-survive-on-mars/