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Code · U.S. Code · Title 51 - NATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL SPACE PROGRAMS · CHAPTER 705— EXPLORATION INITIATIVES · § 70502

§ 70502. Exploration plan and programs

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The Administrator shall—
(1)construct an architecture and implementation plan for the Administration’s human exploration program that is not critically dependent on the achievement of milestones by fixed dates;
(2)implement an exploration research and technology development program to enable human and robotic operations consistent with section 20302(b) of this title;
(3)conduct an in-situ resource utilization technology program to develop the capability to use space resources to increase independence from Earth, and sustain exploration beyond low-Earth orbit; and
(4)pursue aggressively automated rendezvous and docking capabilities that can support the International Space Station and other mission requirements.
(Pub. L. 111–314, § 3, Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3430; Pub. L. 115–10, title IV, § 415, Mar. 21, 2017, 131 Stat. 34.)
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