Sec. 301. Operation of the ISS
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It is the sense of Congress that— after 15 years of continuous human presence in low-Earth orbit, the ISS continues to overcome challenges and operate safely; expansion of partnerships, scientific research, commercial applications, and exploration testbed capabilities of the ISS is essential to ensuring the greatest return on investments made by the United States and its international space partners in the development, assembly, and operations of that unique facility; stable and successful Commercial Cargo and Commercial Crew programs are critical to ensuring timely provisioning of the ISS and to reestablishing the capability to launch United States government astronauts from United States soil into orbit; sustaining United States leadership and progress in human space exploration is enabled by continuing utilization of the ISS— to facilitate the commercialization and economic development of low-Earth orbit; to serve as a testbed for technologies, and to conduct scientific research and development; and as an orbital facility enabling research upon— the health, well-being, and performance of humans in space; and the development of in-space systems enabling human space exploration beyond low-Earth orbit; the Administrator should continue to support the development of the Commercial Crew Program as planned to end reliance upon Russian transport of United States government astronauts to the ISS which has not been possible since the retirement of the Space Shuttle program in 2011; and the ISS should continue to provide a platform for fundamental, microgravity, discovery-based space life and physical sciences research that is critical for enabling space exploration, protecting humans in space, increasing pathways for commercial space development that depend on advances in basic research, and contribute to advancing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics research.
Congress reaffirms the policy set forth in section 501 of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2010 ( 42 U.S.C. 18351 ) that it shall be the policy of the United States, in consultation with its international partners in the ISS program, to support full and complete utilization of the ISS through at least 2024.
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