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Establishment of the PPIRB
FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING PLANETARY PROTECTION ISSUED BY THE NASA ADVISORY COUNCIL’S REGULATORY AND POLICY COMMITTEE
The Regulatory and Policy Committee of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) forwarded the following set of findings and recommendations relating to planetary protection to the NAC for discussion and potential action at its meeting in December 2018.1
Committee on Space Research
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1 NASA, “NASA Advisory Council Regulatory and Policy Committee Observations, Findings, and Recommendations,” December 10, 2018, https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/regulatory_policy_committee_report_dec2018_tagged.pdf.
NASA ADVISORY COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION CONCERNING COSPAR
The findings and recommendations relating to COSPAR and its planetary protection policy adopted by the NASA Advisory Committee’s (NAC’s) Regulatory and Policy Committee at its November 16, 2018, meeting were discussed by the NAC at its December 10-11 meeting and the following recommendation was issued.2
MEMBERSHIP OF THE PLANETARY PROTECTION INDEPENDENT REVIEW BOARD
NASA’s Planetary Protection Independent Review Board (PPIRB) was established by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in mid-2019 in response to a recommendation issued by the NASA Advisory Council (see above). Its membership consisted of the following individuals:
- Alan Stern, Southwest Research Institute, Chair
- Edward Bierhaus, Lockheed Martin
- Wendy Calvin, University of Nevada, Reno
- Amanda Hendrix, Planetary Science Institute
- Christopher H. House, Pennsylvania State University
- Hernan Lorenzi, J. Craig Venter Institute
- Tommy Sanford, Commercial Spaceflight Federation
- Erika Wagner, Blue Origin
- Andrew Westphal, University of California, Berkeley
- Charles Whetsel, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Paul Wooster, SpaceX
- T. Jens Feeley, NASA Headquarters (Ex Officio), Review Manager
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2 NASA, 2018, “NASA Advisory Council Recommendation, Export Control Reform: Avoiding Unilateral Export Controls in Support of Space Policy Directive 2 and the 2018 National Defense Authorization Control Act,” https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nac_meeting_recommendations_dec_10-11_2018_signed_tagged.pdf.