Sec. 622. NASA launch capabilities collaboration
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Congress makes the following findings: The Launch Services Program is responsible for the acquisition, management, and technical oversight of commercial launch services for NASA’s science and robotic missions. The Commercial Crew Program is responsible for the acquisition, management, and technical oversight of commercial crew transportation systems. The Launch Services Program and Commercial Crew Program have worked together to gain exceptional technical insight into the contracted launch service providers that are common to both programs.
The Launch Services Program has a long history of oversight of 12 different launch vehicles and over 80 launches. Co-location of the Launch Services Program and Commercial Crew Program has enabled the Commercial Crew Program to efficiently obtain the launch vehicle technical expertise of and provide engineering and analytical support to the Commercial Crew Program. It is the sense of Congress that— the Launch Services Program and Commercial Crew Program each benefit from communication and coordination of launch manifests, technical information, and common launch vehicle insight between the programs; and such communication and coordination is enabled by the co-location of the programs.
The Administrator shall pursue a strategy for acquisition of crewed transportation services and non-crewed launch services that continues to enhance communication, collaboration, and coordination between the Launch Services Program and the Commercial Crew Program.