When we send humans to search for life on Mars, we'll need to know what we brought with us versus what may already be there. To ensure our crewed spacecraft meet planetary protection requirements--and to protect our science from human contamination--we'll need to know whether micro-organisms are leaking/venting from our ships and spacesuits. This is easily done by swabbing external vents and surfaces for analysis, but there was no US EVA tool for that job. NASA engineers developed an EVA-compatible swab tool that can be used to collect data on current hardware, which will influence eventual Mars life support and EVA hardware designs.


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    Title :

    Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Microbial Swab Tool


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    JSC "Tech and Tell" Poster Session ; 2015 ; Houston, TX, United States


    Publication date :

    2015-10-21


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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