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Directives and Standards


Safety & Mission Success Requirements (Safety, Reliability, Maintainability, and Quality Doc. Tree)

The Tree contains directives (NASA Policy Directives and NASA Procedural Requirements Documents) and active standards prepared by the Office of Safety and Mission Assurance as well as top level directives that influence safety and mission assurance policy. If you need to determine if a standard is Mandatory for use, check this matrix in PDF Format.

The documents and additional information related to the documents are accessible from the tree. (Selected archive/canceled standards are available at Safety & Mission Success Archived Standards).

To access the complete set of all NASA Directives including Safety and Mission Assurance Directives please see the NASA On-line Directives Information System (NODIS)

To access information concerning all NASA Technical Standards including safety reliability maintainability and quality assurance non-government standards adopted by NASA, please see the NASA Preferred Technical Standards Program.

Trying to trace a current Office of Safety and Mission Assurance document to a predecessor document? Try this link.

NASA Memos page on the NODIS Library Web Page with Memos, policy changes and NASA Interim Directives (NIDs)


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