For the purpose of understanding some of the possible implications of a terrestrial quarantine constraint on a mission and for developing a basic approach which can be used to demonstrate compliance beyond that developed for Apollo, a terrestrial quarantine study was performed. It is shown that some of the basic tools developed and used by the planetary quarantine community have applicability to terrestrial quarantine analysis. By using these tools, it is concluded that: (1) the method of biasing the earth aiming point when returning from the planet is necessary but, by itself, may not satisfy terrestrial quarantine constraints; and (2) spacecraft and container design significantly influence contamination transfer.


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    Title :

    Terrestrial quarantine considerations for unmanned sample return missions


    Contributors:
    Hoffman, A. R. (author) / Stavro, W. (author) / Miller, L. W. (author) / Taylor, D. M. (author)

    Conference:

    Joint Open Meeting of the Panel on Planetary Quarantine and Working Group 5 ; 1973 ; Konstanz, Germany


    Publication date :

    1973-06-01


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :



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