PREFACE

This publication establishes common safety, reliability, maintainability and quality provisions for the Space Shuttle Program.

NASA Center shall use this publication both as the basis for negotiating safety, reliability, maintainability and quality requirement with Shuttle Program contractors and as the guideline for conduct of program safety, reliability, maintainability and quality activities at the Centers. Centers shall assure that applicable previsions of the publication are imposed in lower tier contracts. Centers shall give due regard to other Space Shuttle Program planning in order to provide an integrated total Space Shuttle Program activity.

In the implementation of safety, reliability, maintainability and quality activities, consideration shall be given to hardware complexity, supplier experience, state of hardware development, unit cost, and hardware use. The approach and methods for contractor implementation shall be described in the contractor's safety, reliability, maintainability and quality plans.

This publication incorporates provisions of NASA documents: NHB 1700.1 "NASA Safety Manual, Vol. 1;" NHB 5300.4(1A), "Reliability Program Provisions for Aeronautical and Space System Contractors;" and NHB 5300.4(1B), "Quality Program Provisions for Aeronautical and Space System Contractors." It has been tailored from the above documents based on experience in other programs. It is intended that this publication be reviewed and revised, as appropriate, to reflect new experience and to assure continuing viability.