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CFMA is an ongoing NASA activity that was initiated following the March 2000 HESSI spacecraft overtest incident that severely damaged the spacecraft. CFMA is a comprehensive assessment of NASA critical facilities and equipment to identify inadequacies in ground facility readiness that could harm people or NASA hardware. It involves an inventory of critical facilities and equipment, identification of equipment failure modes, establishment of appropriate reliability centered maintenance (RCM) methods, and related activities. This lesson captures a NASA Preferred Practice that was drafted but did not complete a NASA-wide review cycle.