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This study will describe how international and national planetary protection policy has been formulated and adopted and identify associated lessons to inform future policy development.
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Protecting Earth's environment and other solar system bodies from harmful contamination has been an important principle throughout the history of space exploration. For decades, the scientific, political, and economic conditions of space exploration converged in ways that contributed to effective de...
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