Documents and Templates

Below are links to publicly available documents related to planetary protection, astrobiology, and solar system exploration.

• Documents are presented in either HTML or PDF formats (a free PDF viewer can be downloaded from Acrobat).

• Many of the following reports are also summarized on this page, courtesy of Margaret Race from the SETI Institute.
  
  

NASA Online Library and Reports Server

• NASA Technical Reports Server, NTRS

• NASA Online Directives Information System, NODIS Library
  
  

NASA Planetary Protection Policy Related Documents

• If any links to a NPR or NPD is no longer active, please directly search for the document in the NODIS Library.

• NPR 8020.12D: Planetary Protection Provisions for Robotic Extraterrestrial Missions

• NPD 8020.7G: Biological Contamination Control for Outbound and Inbound Planetary Spacecraft

• Handbook for the Microbial Examination of Space Hardware (NASA-HDBK-6022, 8.17.2010)

• NPD 7100.10E: Curation of Extraterrestrial Materials
  
  

International Treaties and Policies Regarding Planetary Protection

• United Nations: Article IX of the 1967 United Nations Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Bodies

• Committee on Space Research (International Council for Science): COSPAR Planetary Protection Policy
  
  

Communication Strategy for Planetary Protection

• Precis to the Communication Strategy
• Full Communication Strategy
  
  
  

NASA Reports Relating to Mars Sample Return and Handling

• A Draft Test Protocol for Detecting Possible Biohazards in Martian Samples Returned to Earth.

• Mars Sample Handling Protocol Workshop Series 1, 2, 2a, 3, and 4.

• Orbiting Quarantine Facility (OQF): The Antaeus Report.

• Mars Sample Handling and Requirements Panel Final Report.
  
  
  

Human Missions and Planetary Protection

• Planetary protection for humans in space: Mars and the Moon (C. A. Conley & J. D. Rummel Acta Astronautica 63 1025–1030 (2008))

• COSPAR Planetary Protection and Human Missions-Principles and Operating Guidelines (2011) [with Explanatory Annotations]

• ESA/NASA Workshop on Planetary protection & Human System Research and Technology (2007)

• IAA Report on Protecting the Environment of Celestial Bodies (2010)

• ISECG Global Exploration Strategy: The Framework for Coordination (2007)

• ISECG (International Space Exploration Coordinating Group) Global Exploration Roadmap (2011)

• Life Support and Habitation and Planetary Protection Workshop (NASA, 2006)

• NASA Mars Design Reference Architecture 5 (DRA), Section 13 (2012)

• Planetary Protection Issues in the Human Exploration of Mars; Pingree Park Report (NASA, 2005)

• Safe on Mars: Precursor Measurements Necessary to Support Human Operations on the Martian Surface (NRC, Space Studies Board, 2002)

• Preparing for the Human Exploration of Mars: Health Care and Planetary Protection Requirements and Practices (J.D. Rummel & C.A. Conley IAC A1.5-15689 (2012))
  
  
  

Space Studies Board (National Research Council) Reports Regarding Planetary Protection and Astrobiology

• Assessment of Planetary Protection Requirements for Spacecraft Missions to Icy Solar System Bodies

• Assessment of Planetary Protection Requirements for Mars Sample Return Missions

• Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars

• Assessment of Planetary Protection Requirements for Venus Missions

• Life in the Universe: an Examination of United States and International Programs in Astrobiology

• The Quarantine and Certification of Martian Samples

• Signs of Life: A Report Based on the April 2000 Workshop on Life Detection Techniques

• Preventing the Forward Contamination of Europa

• Evaluating the Biological Potential in Samples Returned From Planetary Satellites and Small Solar System Bodies

• Mars Sample Return: Issues and Recommendations

• Biological Contamination of Mars: Issues and Recommendations

• The Search for Life’s Origins: Progress and Future Directions in Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution
  
  

Space Studies Board (National Research Council) Reports Relevant to Solar System Exploration

• Review of Goals and Plans for NASA’s Space and Earth Sciences

• New Frontiers in the Solar System: An Integrated Exploration Strategy

• Assessment of Mars Science and Mission Priorities

• A Science Strategy for the Exploration of Europa

• A Scientific Rationale for Mobility in Planetary Environments

• Assessment of NASA’s Mars Architecture 2007 – 2016

• On NASA Mars Sample-Return Mission Options

• Review of NASA’s Planned Mars Program

• An Integrated Strategy for the Planetary Sciences: 1995-2010

• International Cooperation for Mars Exploration and Sample Return

• Update to Strategy for Exploration of the Inner Planets

• Space Science in the Twenty-First Century: Imperatives for the Decades 1995 to 2015, Overview
  
  
  

NASA Books & Documents related to Planetary Protection

• When Biospheres Collide: A History of NASA’s Planetary Protection Programs, Sept. 14 2011, Michael Meltzer

• The Planetary Quarantine Program: Origins and Achievements, 1956-1973

• Chronology of Lunar and Planetary Exploration, 1957-present

• Lunar Exploration Timeline, 1959-1976

• On Mars: Exploration of the Red Planet, 1958-1978

• Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions

• 25 Years of Curating Moon Rocks
  
  

Bibliographies of Planetary Protection (Quarantine) Research (1945-1977)

• Bibliography of Planetary Quarantine. Volume I: Policy (1958-1967)

• Bibliography of Planetary Quarantine. Volume II: Environmental Microbiology (1945-1967)

• Bibliography of Planetary Quarantine. Volume III: Engineering (1945-1967)

• Bibliography of Planetary Quarantine. Volume III: Engineering (1945-1967)

• Bibliography of Scientific Publications and Presentations Relating to Planetary Quarantine (1966- 1971)

• Bibliography of Scientific Publications and Presentations Relating to Planetary Quarantine (1972- 1976)