IIA
104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1601
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
OCTOBER 10, 1995
Received; read twice and referred to the Commission on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation
A BILL
To authorize appropriations to the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration to develop, assemble, and operate
the International Space Station.
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.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘International Space
Station Authorization Act of 1995’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds that—
(1) the development, assembly, and operation of
the International Space Station is in the national in-
terest of the United States;
(2) the National Aeronautics and Space Admin-
istration has restructured and redesigned the Inter-
national Space Station, consolidated contract re-
sponsibility, and achieved program management,
control, and stability;
(3) the significant involvement by private ven-
tures in marketing and using, competitively servic-
ing, and commercially augmenting the operational
capabilities of the International Space Station dur-
ing its assembly and operational phases will lower
costs and increase benefits to the international part-
ners;
(4) further rescoping or redesigns of the Inter-
national Space Station will lead to costly delays, in-
crease costs to its international partners, discourage
commercial involvement, and weaken the inter-
national space partnership necessary for future
space projects;
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(5) total program costs for development, assem-
bly, and initial operations have been identified and
capped to ensure financial discipline and maintain
program schedule milestones;
(6) in order to contain costs, mission planning
and engineering functions of the National Space
Transportation System (Space Shuttle) program
should be coordinated with the Space Station Pro-
gram Office;
(7) complete program authorizations for large
development programs promote program stability,
reduce the potential for cost growth, and provide
necessary assurance to international partners and
commercial participants; and
(8) the International Space Station represents
an important component of an adequately funded
civil space program which balances human space
flight with science, aeronautics, and technology.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
For the purposes of this Act—
(1) the term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Ad-
ministrator of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration; and
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(2) the term ‘‘cost threat’’ means a potential
change to the program baseline documented as a po-
tential cost by the Space Station Program Office.
SEC. 4. SPACE STATION COMPLETE PROGRAM AUTHORIZA-
TION.
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Except
as provided in subsection (b), there are authorized to be
appropriated to the National Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration for the period encompassing fiscal year 1996
and 
all 
subsequent 
fiscal 
years 
not 
to 
exceed
$13,141,000,000, to remain available until expended, for
complete development and assembly of, and to provide for
initial operations, through fiscal year 2002, of, the Inter-
national Space Station. Not more than $2,121,000,000
may be appropriated for any one fiscal year.
(b) CERTIFICATION
AND REPORT.—None of the
funds authorized under subsection (a) may be appro-
priated for any fiscal year unless, within 60 days after
the submission of the President’s budget request for that
fiscal year, the Administrator—
(1) certifies to the Congress that—
(A) the program reserves available for such
fiscal year exceed the total of all cost threats
known at the time of certification;
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chase, for not more than $35,000,000, the Clear Lake De-
velopment Facility, containing the Sonny Carter Training
Facility and the approximately 13.7 acre parcel of land
on which it is located, using funds authorized by this Act.
SEC. 5. COORDINATION WITH SPACE SHUTTLE.
The Administrator shall—
(1) coordinate the engineering functions of the
Space Shuttle program with the Space Station Pro-
gram Office to minimize overlapping activities; and
(2) in the interest of safety and the successful
integration of human spacecraft development with
human spaceflight operations, maintain at one lead
center the complementary capabilities of human
spacecraft engineering and astronaut training.
SEC. 6. COMMERCIALIZATION OF SPACE STATION.
(a) POLICY.—The Congress declares that a priority
goal of constructing the International Space Station is the
economic development of Earth orbital space. The Con-
gress further declares that the use of free market prin-
ciples in operating, allocating the use of, and adding capa-
bilities to the Space Station, and the resulting fullest pos-
sible engagement of commercial providers and participa-
tion of commercial users, will reduce Space Station oper-
ational costs for all partners and the Federal Govern-
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ment’s share of the United States burden to fund oper-
ations.
(b) REPORT.—The Administrator shall deliver to the
Congress, within 60 days after the submission of the
President’s budget request for fiscal year 1997, a market
study that examines the role of commercial ventures which
could supply, use, service, or augment the International
Space Station, the specific policies and initiatives the Ad-
ministrator is advancing to encourage these commercial
opportunities, the cost savings to be realized by the inter-
national partnership from applying commercial ap-
proaches to cost-shared operations, and the cost reim-
bursements to the United States Federal Government
from commercial users of the Space Station.
SEC. 7. SENSE OF CONGRESS.
It is the sense of Congress that the ‘‘cost incentive
fee’’ single prime contract negotiated by the National Aer-
onautics and Space Administration for the International
Space Station, and the consolidation of programmatic and
financial accountability into a single Space Station Pro-
gram Office, are two examples of reforms for the
reinvention of all National Aeronautics and Space Admin-
istration programs that should be applied as widely and
as quickly as possible throughout the Nation’s civil space
program.
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SEC. 8. SPACE STATION ACCOUNTING REPORT.
Within one year after the date of enactment of this
Act, and annually thereafter, the Administrator shall
transmit to the Congress a report with a complete annual
accounting of all costs of the space station, including cash
and other payments to Russia.
Passed the House of Representatives September 28,
1995.
Attest:
ROBIN H. CARLE,
Clerk.