Preventing 'Sick' Spaceships

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Fungi on the ISS growing on a panel where exercise clothes were hung to dry. This is a good example of how biological contamination isnt an old problem or just specific to Mir points out Mark Ott. Credit: NASA
Fungi on the ISS, growing on a panel where exercise clothes were hung to dry. "This is a good example of how biological contamination isn't an old problem or just specific to Mir," points out Mark Ott. Credit: NASA

Picture this: You're one of several astronauts homeward bound after a three-year mission to Mars. Halfway back from the Red Planet, your spacecraft starts suffering intermittent electrical outages. So you remove a little-used service panel to check some wiring.


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