IIB 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 8958 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation 
AN ACT 
To reauthorize the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘NASA Reauthorization Act of 2024’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definitions. 
TITLE I—AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
Sec. 101. Fiscal year 2025. 
TITLE II—EXPLORATION 
Sec. 201. Continuity of purpose for space exploration. 
Sec. 202. Artemis program. 
Sec. 203. Reaffirmation of the Space Launch System. 
Sec. 204. Human-rated lunar landing capabilities. 
Sec. 205. Advanced spacesuit capabilities. 
TITLE III—SPACE OPERATIONS 
Sec. 301. Report on continued United States presence in low earth orbit. 
Sec. 302. International Space Station. 
Sec. 303. Nongovernmental missions on the International Space Station. 
Sec. 304. Report on suborbital crew missions. 
Sec. 305. United States deorbit capabilities. 
Sec. 306. Commercial low-earth orbit development. 
Sec. 307. Risk of losing access to low-earth orbit. 
Sec. 308. Maintenance of service for International Space Station. 
Sec. 309. Orbital debris research and development. 
Sec. 310. Restriction on Federal funds relating to certain Chinese space and 
scientific activities. 
TITLE IV—SPACE TECHNOLOGY 
Sec. 401. SBIR phase II flexibility. 
Sec. 402. Lunar power purchase agreement program. 
Sec. 403. Cryogenic fluid valve technology review. 
Sec. 404. Lunar communications. 
Sec. 405. Celestial time standardization. 
TITLE V—AERONAUTICS 
Sec. 501. Definitions. 
Sec. 502. Experimental aircraft demonstrations. 
Sec. 503. Hypersonic research. 
Sec. 504. Advanced materials and manufacturing technology. 
Sec. 505. Unmanned aircraft system and advanced air mobility. 
Sec. 506. Advanced capabilities for emergency response operations. 
Sec. 507. Hydrogen aviation. 
Sec. 508. High-performance chase aircraft. 
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Sec. 509. Collaboration with academia. 
Sec. 510. National student unmanned aircraft systems competition program. 
Sec. 511. Decadal survey for national aeronautics research and priorities re-
view. 
Sec. 512. Making advancements in commercial hypersonics. 
TITLE VI—SCIENCE 
Sec. 601. Maintaining a balanced science portfolio. 
Sec. 602. Implementation of science mission cost-caps. 
Sec. 603. Reexamination of decadal surveys. 
Sec. 604. Landsat. 
Sec. 605. Private earth observation data. 
Sec. 606. Commercial satellite data. 
Sec. 607. Greenhouse gas emission measurements. 
Sec. 608. NASA data for agricultural applications. 
Sec. 609. Planetary science portfolio. 
Sec. 610. Planetary defense. 
Sec. 611. Lunar discovery and exploration. 
Sec. 612. Commercial lunar payload services. 
Sec. 613. Planetary and lunar operations. 
Sec. 614. Mars sample return. 
Sec. 615. Hubble space telescope servicing. 
Sec. 616. Great observatories mission and technology maturation. 
Sec. 617. Nancy Grace Roman telescope. 
Sec. 618. Chandra X-Ray observatory. 
Sec. 619. Heliophysics research. 
Sec. 620. Study on commercial space weather data. 
Sec. 621. Geospace dynamics constellation. 
Sec. 622. Technology development for wildland fire science, management, and 
mitigation. 
Sec. 623. Implementation of recommendations by the National Wildland Fire 
Management and Mitigation Commission. 
TITLE VII—STEM EDUCATION 
Sec. 701. National space grant college and fellowship program. 
Sec. 702. Skilled technical workforce education outreach. 
TITLE VIII—POLICY/NASA 
Sec. 801. Major programs. 
Sec. 802. NASA advisory council. 
Sec. 803. NASA assessment of early cost estimates. 
Sec. 804. Independent cost estimate. 
Sec. 805. Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy report. 
Sec. 806. Authorization for the transfer to NASA of funds from other agencies 
for scientific or engineering research or education. 
Sec. 807. Procedure for launch services risk mitigation. 
Sec. 808. Report on merits and options for establishing an institute relating to 
space resources. 
Sec. 809. Reports to Congress. 
Sec. 810. Contract flexibility. 
Sec. 811. GAO report. 
Sec. 812. NASA public-private talent program. 
Sec. 813. Report on Space Act agreements. 
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Sec. 814. Mentoring. 
Sec. 815. Drinking water well replacement for Chincoteague, Virginia. 
Sec. 816. Rule of construction. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Adminis-
trator’’ means the Administrator of the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration. 
(2) 
APPROPRIATE
COMMITTEES
OF
CON-
GRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Con-
gress’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation of the Senate; and 
(B) the Committee on Science, Space, and 
Technology of the House of Representatives. 
(3) CISLUNAR
SPACE.—The term ‘‘cislunar 
space’’ means the region of space beyond low-Earth 
orbit out to and including the region around the sur-
face of the Moon. 
(4) COMMERCIAL PROVIDER.—The term ‘‘com-
mercial provider’’ means any person providing space 
services or space-related capabilities, primary control 
of which is held by persons other than the Federal 
Government, a State or local government, or a for-
eign government. 
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(5) DEEP
SPACE.—The term ‘‘deep space’’ 
means the region of space beyond low-Earth orbit, 
which includes cislunar space. 
(6) ISS.—The term ‘‘ISS’’ means the Inter-
national Space Station. 
(7) NASA.—The term ‘‘NASA’’ means the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration. 
(8) ORION.—The term ‘‘Orion’’ means the mul-
tipurpose crew vehicle described under section 303 
of the National Aeronautics and Space Administra-
tion Authorization Act of 2010 (42 U.S.C. 18323). 
(9) SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM.—The term ‘‘Space 
Launch System’’ means the Space Launch System 
authorized under section 302 of the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration Authorization Act 
of 2010 (42 U.S.C. 18322). 
TITLE I—AUTHORIZATION OF 
APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 101. FISCAL YEAR 2025. 
For fiscal year 2025, there are authorized to be ap-
propriated to NASA $25,224,640,000 as follows: 
(1) For the Exploration Systems Development 
Mission Directorate, $7,618,200,000. 
(2) For the Space Operations Mission Direc-
torate, $4,473,500,000. 
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