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 Technical Documents, and Reports
(please note that if the direct link to a NPR or NPD is no longer active, you may be able to search for the document at the NODIS Library)
- Handbook for the Microbial Examination of Space Hardware (NASA-HDBK-6022, 8.17.2010)
Bibliographies of Planetary Protection (Quarantine) Research (1945-1977)
NASA Documents and Books related to Planetary Protection
Committee on Space Research of the International Council for Science
Reports of the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council
Reports Relevant to Planetary Protection and Astrobiology
Reports Relevant to Solar System Exploration