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Re: Biological List Monsters
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- Subject: Re: Biological List Monsters
- From: Ron Baalke <BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 16:31:36 GMT
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>Fortunately, NASA has reason to believe that decontamination and
>quarantine procedures will be prudent. Hopefully they will be more
>stringent than the silly, ineffective and most probably unnecessary,
>"quarantine" used for the Apollo astronauts.
NASA is very serious about the handling of sample returns from Mars
and the potential back contamination. They have a committee already
formed to address these issues. There will probably be a special
facility built at JSC to handle the sample return materials.
Ron Baalke
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