Publication Date:
2019-07-13
Description:
The Astromaterials Acquisition and Curation Office at NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), in Houston, TX (henceforth Curation Office) manages the curation of all past, present, and future extraterrestrial samples returned by NASA missions and shared collections from international partners, preserving their integrity for future scientific study while providing the samples to the international community in a fair and unbiased way. The Curation Office also curates flight and non-flight reference materials and other materials from spacecraft assembly of sample return missions that would have the potential to cross-contaminate a present or future NASA astromaterials collection. These materials are primarily collected during the assembly, test, and launch operations (ATLO) phase and after flight during the recovery and curation phase. In addition, the Curation Office curates non-flight, flight-like, and flown witness plates for sample return missions. These reference materials and witness plates provide the scientific community with the fundamental ability to reconstruct the contamination/alteration history of the sample collection through the course of the mission, with the overall goal of strengthening the scientific conclusions drawn from the study of returned materials.
Keywords:
Documentation and Information Science; Space Sciences (General)
Type:
JSC-E-DAA-TN52423
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International Mars Sample Return Conference; Apr 25, 2018 - Apr 27, 2018; Berlin; Germany
Format:
application/pdf
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