The Isolation and Characterization of Rare Mycobiome Associated With Spacecraft Assembly Cleanrooms

Ensuring biological cleanliness while assembling and launching spacecraft is critical for robotic exploration of the solar system. To date, when preventing forward contamination of other celestial bodies, NASA Planetary Protection policies have focused on endospore-forming bacteria while fungi were...

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Main Authors: Adriana Blachowicz, Snehit Mhatre, Nitin Kumar Singh, Jason M. Wood, Ceth W. Parker, Cynthia Ly, Daniel Butler, Christopher E. Mason, Kasthuri Venkateswaran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.777133/full