NASS ↔ Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)

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NASA and the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) are linked through their collaborative role in developing planetary protection policies [1], with NASA utilizing COSPAR's guidelines as the principal framework for its own internal requirements {fact:1, fact:3}.

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Read "Review and Assessment of Planetary Protection Policy ... nap.nationalacademies.org National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 3 facts

claimNASA uses the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) planetary protection policy as its principal guidance, although the COSPAR policy is not binding on member states unless those states choose to adopt it.

claimThe development of planetary protection policies involves the intertwined roles of NASA, the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), and the National Academies Space Studies Board.

accountNASA has played an influential role in the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) process for determining, reviewing, and updating the COSPAR planetary protection policy, and has used these guidelines to justify its own implementing requirements and processes.

Planetary protection: an international concern and responsibility frontiersin.org Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 1 fact

referenceThe 2021 update to the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) planetary protection policy for the Moon was informed by the 2020 report 'Planetary Protection for the Study of Lunar Volatiles' by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) and the Space Studies Board (SSB) Committee on Planetary Protection (CoPP), as well as a joint NASA/LEAG-COSPAR community survey.