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Safe Space The cosmic importance of planetary quarantine

As the pace and ambition of space exploration accelerates, preventing earthborne organisms from

hitching a ride has become more urgent than ever by Jeff Manau and Nicola Twiley. Read by Tanya

Kubrick and produced by Esther Apokugeni. This, what you're doing today, never happens.

NASA's David Seidel told us, this is a rare chance. Agreed the director of the Jet Propulsion

Laboratory, Michael Watkins, welcoming us into the lab's spacecraft assembly facility, located

in the hills outside Pasadena, California. The exceedingly unusual adventure awaiting us was a

trip into the clean room where Perseverance, NASA's latest Mars rover, having been assembled under

conditions of exacting sterility, sat awaiting shipment to Cape Canaveral. Our visit in December

2019 had been prefaced by a long email laying out extremely detailed rules. We were instructed

not to wear any perfume, cologne, makeup or dangly earrings, flannel, wool or frayed clothing

was not allowed, even our fingernails had to be smooth rather than jagged. After a quick welcome,

our phones and notebooks were confiscated, and a high-tech door mat vacuum brushed the

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