[NIAC 2023] On-Demand Pharmacy for Space Missions
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The Risks of Contaminating Mars
We are under international protocols in terms of forward and back contaminations is planter protection. So we are under an obligation, not to contaminate Mars with earth organisms. Now that's going to be almost impossible to do because we never sent anything there that's sterilized sterilize means there is not a single living organism. You can't be a little sterile or mostly sterile as my master's advisor used to say, it's like being pregnant you either are, or you're not. And so these spacecraft have every last micro removed it's impossible to do. It's, you can get close we reduce the bio load so that it's very unlikely anything could grow. But honestly, we
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