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Title: NASA Reauthorization Act of 2024

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that reauthorizes the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for fiscal year 2024-2025.

Highlights:

  • Amends and reauthorizes through Fiscal Year 2025 the programs and activities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and establishes and revises various NASA programs relating to space exploration, research, and technology (Title II- IIX, Sec. 201-816).

  • Requires NASA to continue its efforts to support crewed lunar landings and Mars explorations, including through partnerships with the private sector (the Moon to Mars and Artemis programs) and that NASA report on certain details of these partnerships, including the respective amounts of government and private sector contributions (Title II- IIX, Sec. 201-816).

  • Authorizes private sector involvement with the International Space Station (ISS), including authorizing private sector missions to the ISS to advance commercial spaceflight and requiring NASA to partner with the private sector to support the eventual deorbiting of the ISS (Title II- IIX, Sec. 201-816).

  • Requires that NASA must continue to support improvements to space technology, including lunar communications. NASA must also evaluate and conduct research programs relating to experimental aircrafts, hypersonic research, and unmanned aircraft systems (drones) (Title II- IIX, Sec. 201-816).

  • Establishes certain requirements relating to earth science and monitoring, including requiring NASA to evaluate greenhouse gas detection capabilities and to distribute relevant earth science data to the agricultural industry and statutory authority for the Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition Program, which supports NASA's earth science research (Title II- IIX, Sec. 2-1-816).

  • Requires several reports and evaluations of NASA programs and policies, including an external review of the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program and a report on NASA's early cost estimates for missions (Title II- IIX, Sec. 2-1-816).

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