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Discussions below several recent posts in Space SE (links below) indicate that bacterial spores are a serious problem when considering how to prevent a future spacecraft mission to subsurface ocean worlds like Europa or Enceladus, ice-crusted moons of Jupiter and Saturn believed to hav...