Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Assessment of NASA’s Space Solar Power Investment Strategy 
Laying the Foundation for Space Solar Power [PDF ebook] 
An Assessment of NASA’s Space Solar Power Investment Strategy

In March 2000, NASA’s Office of Space Flight asked the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Research Council to perform an independent assessment of the space solar power program’s technology investment strategy to determine its technical soundness and its contribution to the roadmap that NASA has developed for this program. The program’s investment strategy was to be evaluated in the context of its likely effectiveness in meeting the program’s technical and economic objectives.