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Until the commitment of the United States by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to send a man to the Moon by the end of that decade, the only extraterrestrial samples that were available to science were meteorites.
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Chela-Flores, J. (2001). Sources for life’s origin: A search for biogenic elements. In: The New Science of Astrobiology. Cellular Origin and Life in Extreme Habitats, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0822-8_4
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