planetary protection
Report recommends NASA revise its planetary protection policies
NASA’s approaches to planetary protection are outdated in an era of more ambitious missions and emergence of private space exploration ventures and thus need to be revised, a new report concludes.
New NASA planetary protection officer seeks greater cooperation with human and commercial missions
NASA's new planetary protection officer is open to reexamining how the agency deals with both government and commercial missions to Mars and other potentially habitable worlds in the solar system.
