* This guidance applies to NASA civil servants.

Contract employees
NASA Response Framework should reach out to their contracting officer’s representative.

Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4

- Employees who can
accomplish work remotely
- Mandatory telework
- Full access are encouraged to telework. - Mandatory telework.
Center Access - Cancel/postpone visits. - Facility is closed, except to
- Be telework ready. - Limited to mission-essential
protect life and critical
- Mission-essential visitors personnel only.3
infrastructure.
only and with approval.

- Close Fitness Centers. - Limit on-center food service to

- Practice social distancing.
Health & Safety - Wash hands and use hand
sanitizer liberally.
- Clinics defer physicals.
- Practice social distancing.
- Wash hands and use hand
sanitizer liberally.
take-out only (to support
mission-essential personnel).
- Daycares closed
- All facilities closed.
- Clinics open to support mission
essential personnel only.

- Conduct virtual meetings and - Conduct virtual meetings and

participate remotely, when participate remotely. - Conduct virtual meetings and
Meetings & Events possible.
- Cancel or postpone large in-
- Conduct virtual meetings with
remote participation only. participate remotely only in
- Reduce in-person meetings and person meetings and gatherings. events.
large gatherings.

Travel
All travel to or from centers at - Reduce travel that is not - Mission essential3 travel only.
mission-essential. - Mission essential3 travel only. - All travel suspended
Stage 3 or higher, or to
countries at Level 3 or higher1,
requires an approved Request
for Travel Exception form2.

1. For the latest CDC international travel information, go to 3. Mission Essential is defined as: work that must be performed to maintain mission/project operations or schedules AND cannot
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/index.html be performed remotely/virtually; OR work that has a justifiable impact on the safety of human life or the protection of property,
2. The Request for Travel Exception form is available on the NASA People website. AND there is a reasonable likelihood that the safety of human life or the protection of property would be compromised by a delay
in the performance of the work.