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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inadequate Quarantine. University of Rochester Biochemist Wolf Vishniac is not particularly concerned about the Apollo 11 mission, which will bring back only surface samples. But Vishniac is convinced that more elaborate quarantine precautions should be taken thereafter. On later missions, he points out, astronauts will dig for samples from below the surface, where radiation and temperature variations are less severe and the prospects of life more likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Is the Earth Safe From Lunar Contamination? | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

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