Planetary quarantine: Principles, methods, and problems.Microbial survival in deep space environment, contamination of planets by nonsterile flight hardware, and hazards of back contamination are among the topics covered in papers concerned with the analytical basis for planetary quarantine. The development of the technology and policies of planetary quarantine is covered in contributions on microbiologic assay and sterilization of space flight hardware and control of microbial contamination. A comprehensive subject index is included. Individual items are abstracted in this issue.
Document ID
19720027151
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Other - Collected Works
Authors
Hall, L. B. (NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)