Mobile Quarantine Facility

May 1, 2019
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Mobile Quarantine Facility

This Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) was one of four built by NASA for astronauts returning from the Moon. Its purpose was to prevent the unlikely spread of lunar contagions by isolating the astronauts from contact with other people. NASA transferred the MQF to the Smithsonian Institution in 1974.

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