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Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources Display this book on your site! Related Titles Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars Signs of Life:A Report Based on the April 2000 Workshop on Life Detection Techniques Other Related Titles Biology and the Exploration of Mars (1966) Space Studies Board (SSB) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "17 Space Vehicles for Planetary Missions." Biology and the Exploration of Mars. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1966. Please select a format: Page 292   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore Page 292 Front Matter (R1-R16) Part I: Biology and the Exploration of Mars, Summary and Conclusions (1-18) Postscript: October 1965 (19-22) Part II: Life: Its Nature and Origin, 1 What is Life? (23-40) 2 The Origin of Life (41-70) Part III: The Cosmic Setting, 3 The Solar System as a Abode of Life (71-113) 4 Biological Materials in Carbonaceous Chrondrites (114-124) Part IV: Recognition of Life and Some Terrestrial Precedents, 5 Signs of Life (125-140) 6 Optical Asymmetry (141-146) 7 The Biochemestry of Terrestrial Soils (147-163) 8 Properties of Desert Soils (164-186) 9 Remote Detection of Terrestrial Life (187-210) Part IV: Some Extrapolations and Speculations, 10 Development of Rigorous Tests for Extraterrestrial Life (211-228) 11 A Model of Martial Ecology (229-242) 12 Exotic Biochemistry in Exobiology (243-251) 13 Higher Organisms on Mars (252-258) 14 Some Terrestrial Programs (259-263) 15 Potential Yields of Biological Relevance from Remote Investigations of Mars (264-282) 16 Launch Opportunities and Seasonal Activity on Mars (283-291) 17 Space Vehicles for Planetary Missions (292-322) Part VII: Martial Landings: Unmanned, 18 Biological Objective and Strategy for the Design of a Space Vehicle to be Landed on Mars (323-330) 19 The Automated Biological Laboratory (331-346) 20 Analytical Methods for Landers (347-426) 21 The Use of Martian Materials in the Search for Martial Life (427-430) Part VIII: Martian Landings: Manned, 22 Impact of Manned Spacecraft on the Exobiology Program (431-435) 23 Prospects for Manned Mars Missions (436-442) 24 "Back Contamination" and Quarantine Problems and Perspectives (443-446) Part IX: Avoiding the Contamination of Mars, 25 The Nature of the Problems (447-462) 26 The Objectives and Technology of Spacecraft Sterilization (463-466) 27 Spacecraft Sterilization (467-469) 28 Decontamination Standards for Martial Exploration Programs (470-481) 29 The Special Problem of Encapsulated Contaminants (482-484) Appendix I: Instrumentation for the Detection of Extraterrestrial Life (485-502) Appendix II: Potential Application of Electron-Optical Methods to Storage of Information for Direct Retrieval (503-506) Appendix III: List of Participants and Contributors (507-509) Appendix IV: Note on the Space Science Board (510-518)

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