National Aeronautics and Space Administration

This audit examined the Agency’s processes for estimating, tracking, and reporting life-cycle costs and questioned whether current practices support transparency and accountability.

Prior to landing humans on the Moon as part of the Artemis program, NASA is developing new science instruments to explore the lunar surface including VIPER, a rover that will survey the Moon’s water ice to see if people can “live off the land.” In this report, we assessed NASA’s management of the...

Ensuring that NASA has an adequate number of astronauts with the skills needed for missions to the International Space Station and the Moon is critical to meeting the Agency’s ambitious space exploration goals. In this report, we examined NASA’s management of its astronaut corps.

The NASA Office of Inspector General examined the costs associated with the Station’s continued use and maintenance, risks to its structure, NASA’s utilization of the ISS, and the Agency’s plans for commercialization of low Earth orbit.

This annual report identifies the top management and performance challenges facing NASA in 2021.

In this audit, we assessed the schedule and projected costs for the first several missions of the Artemis program and NASA's ambitious effort to return humans to the Moon and establish a long-term presence.

As required by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA), we reviewed the Agency’s information security program for fiscal year 2021 and reported the results to OMB.

In this audit, we assessed the completeness, accuracy, timeliness, and quality of the Agency's fiscal year 2020, fourth quarter data submission as well as the Agency's implementation and use of government-wide financial data standards.

NASA manages more than 5,000 buildings and structures, a $2.66 billion deferred maintenance backlog, and a $357 million annual facility construction budget. In this audit, we assessed whether NASA is effectively managing its facility construction efforts to modernize, consolidate, and repair its...