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Acronyms
AST | Office of Commercial Space Transportation |
ATP | adenosine triphosphate |
BSL | Biosafety Level; Biohazard Safety Level |
CAPS | Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science |
CEQ | Council on Environmental Quality |
CETEX | Committee on Contamination by Extraterrestrial Exploration |
CNSR | Comet Nucleus Sample Return |
COMSTAC | Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee |
COPUOS | Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space |
COSPAR | Committee on Space Research |
CRAF | Comet Rendezvous–Asteroid Flyby |
CRISPR | clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats |
DNA | deoxyribonucleic acid |
DoC | Department of Commerce |
EASTEX | East Coast Panel on Extraterrestrial Life |
ESA | European Space Agency |
ESF | European Science Foundation |
FAA | Federal Aviation Administration |
FCC | Federal Communications Commission |
HEOMD | Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate |
IADC | Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee |
IAF | International Astronautical Federation |
ICBC | Interagency Committee on Back Contamination |
ICSU | International Council for Science |
IKI | Space Research Institute |
ISAS | Institute for Space and Astronautical Science |
JAXA | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency |
JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
LAL | limulus amebocyte lysate |
LIFE | Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment |
MAX-C | Mars Astrobiology Explorer and Cacher |
MEPAG | Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group |
MER | Mars Exploration Rover |
MO | Mars Observer |
MSL | Mars Science Laboratory |
MUSES-C | Mu Space Engineering Spacecraft-C |
NAC | NASA Advisory Council |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NASEM | National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
NID | NASA Interim Directive |
NPD | NASA Policy Directive |
NPI | NASA Policy Instruction |
NPR | NASA Procedural Requirement |
NRC | National Research Council |
NSAM | National Security Action Memoranda |
OCT | Organic Contamination Team |
OPP | Office of Planetary Protection |
OSIRIS-REx | Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer |
OSMA | Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (NASA) |
OST | Outer Space Treaty |
OSTP | Office of Science and Technology Policy |
Pc | probability of contamination |
PPAC | Planetary Protection Advisory Committee |
PPO | planetary protection officer |
PPOSS | Planetary Protection for Outer Solar System |
PPS | Planetary Protection Subcommittee |
ROI | region of interest |
ROSES | Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences |
RSL | recurring slope lineae |
SAG | Science Analysis Group |
SAT | Office of Space and Advanced Technology |
SMD | Science Mission Directorate |
SR | Special Regions |
SSB | Space Science Board (1958-1988), Space Studies Board (1988 to date) |
STSC | Science and Technical Subcommittee |
TOC | total organic carbon |
UN | United Nations |
WESTEX | West Coast Panel on Extraterrestrial Life |