Sec. 201. Crew transportation safety
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It is the sense of Congress that— ensuring the safety of American astronauts is the top priority of NASA’s human spaceflight program; in efforts to meet deadlines to return humans to the Moon, NASA should take all steps necessary to mitigate any and all risk to crew; and it is the role of Congress to exercise prudence in the use of taxpayer dollars and ensure transparency to the taxpayer to the greatest extent possible. To ensure that NASA’s human exploration systems comply with the direction in this Act to have a shared safety standard that is consistent across all elements of the architecture, the Administrator shall— implement a program to ensure that best practices, lessons learned and other information is shared across all elements of the human exploration program, including public-private partnerships and commercial service procurement; require that any entity receiving funding for the development or operation of a human spaceflight element or activity make all necessary information available to NASA and the appropriate government oversight entities, including the NASA Advisory Committee and its subcommittees, the Aerospace Safety Advisory Committee and the relevant committees of Congress; and produce a public report twice a year detailing progress towards meeting or sustaining the shared safety standards and identifying areas, programs, or services where these standards have not been met or maintained, and the associated corrective action to address these issues.
Within 120 days of enactment, the Administrator shall provide a report to the Committees on the implementation of this direction and how it plans to ensure these comparable safety standards are met throughout the development, test and operation of such systems. Should any element of human exploration system architecture, whether owned and operated by NASA, developed and operated as a public-private partnership or procured as a commercial service, fails to meet the common safety standards established, Congress shall be notified and receive a report on corrective actions and options available to improve safety and resiliency of such system(s) within 30 days.