Don't leave home without it: Planetary protection for robotic and human missions

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Conley, Catharine A ^a   Billings, Linda ^b  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTAMINATION; CROSS-CONTAMINATION; FORWARD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN EXPLORERS; HUMAN MISSIONS; MISSION PLANNING; ORGANIC MATERIALS; PLANETARY BODIES; PLANETARY EXPLORATIONS; PLANETARY MISSIONS; PLANETARY PROTECTION; SEARCH FOR LIFE; SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION; SPACE EXPLORATION PROGRAMS;

ASTRONOMY; CONTAMINATION; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; NASA; ROBOTICS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR SYSTEM; WEIGHT CONTROL;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 49349089770     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2008.4526252     Document Type: Conference Paper

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