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As someone who has worked onmultiple spacecraft, including a lunar lander, this is no surprise. Cleanrooms are great but ISO 8 (the most common cleanliness stan
by cuSetanta 3y ago
As someone who has worked onmultiple spacecraft, including a lunar lander, this is no surprise. Cleanrooms are great but ISO 8 (the most common cleanliness standard for spacecraft manufacture) isnt perfect.
Missions to Mars and other planets have much much stricter cleanliness requirements, so much so that it becomes a real barrier to work and cost.
I quite enjoy the idea that some of my DNA is now on the moon.
- d35007 3y agoAre cleanliness standards relevant in this context? As far as I can tell, the tardigrades — and everything else mentioned in the article — were put there on purpose.
- TheCleric 3y agoI think the overall point is that while this was purposeful, the cleanliness standards mean that this has likely already occurred accidentally.