Reports and Studies

Enhancing Mission Success -- A Framework for the Future.  A Report by the NASA Chief Engineer and the NASA Integrated Action Team. (The NIAT Report).  Dec. 21, 2000

Report of the Mars Program Independent Assessment Team.  March 2000

Space Shuttle Independent Assessment Team Report (McDonald Report).  March 2000

NASA Reports, and Studies on Commercialization of the International Space Station.  1998-2000

Analysis of Potential Alternatives to Reduce NASA's Cost of Human Access to Space (The Hawthorne Report).  Sept. 1998

Vice President's Space Policy Advisory Board Report on The Future of the U.S. Space Industrial Base, Nov. 1992. Part 1; Part 2.

Vice President's Space Policy Advisory Board Report:  A Post-Cold War Assessment of U.S. Space Policy, Dec. 1992.  Part 1;  Part 2

Final Report to the President on the U.S. Space Program.  The National Space Council, Jan. 1993. Part 1; Part 2

America at the Threshold:  America's Space Exploration Initiative  (Stafford Report).  May 3, 1991.

Report of the Advisory Committee on the U.S. Space Program  (Augustine Commission Report).  Dec. 1990

Leadership and America's Future in Space:  A Report to the Administrator by Dr. Sally K. Ride (Ride Report)  Aug. 1987

Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident  (Rogers Report). June 1986  and Report to the President:  Implementation of the Recommendations of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident.  June 1987

Pioneering the Space Frontier:  An Exciting Vision of Our Next Fifty Years in Space.  Report of the National Commission on Space (NCOS or Paine Report).  May 1986

Space Station Announcement; President Ronald Reagan's State of the Union Address, Jan. 1984

Additional reports and studies, including many from earlier years, are available at the NASA History Office website.