I 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7062 
To authorize the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Admin-
istration to develop a plan to guarantee access to the International 
Space Station, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 25, 2008 
Mr. FEENEY (for himself, Mr. PEARCE, and Mr. WELDON of Florida) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science 
and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
committee concerned 
A BILL 
To authorize the Administrator of the National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration to develop a plan to guarantee 
access to the International Space Station, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘International Space Station Guaranteed Access Plan For 
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Integrated Launch and Low Earth Rendezvous Act’’ or 
the ‘‘ISS GAP FILLER Act’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings. 
Sec. 3. Definitions. 
TITLE I—AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
Sec. 101. Authorization of appropriations. 
TITLE II—SPACE SHUTTLE OPERATIONS 
Sec. 201. Flight manifest. 
Sec. 202. Authorization of Space Shuttle operations through fiscal year 2012. 
Sec. 203. Suspension of activities that would inhibit or preclude continued oper-
ation of the Space Shuttle through fiscal year 2012. 
Sec. 204. Shuttle recertification. 
TITLE III—ALTERNATIVE ACCESS TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE 
STATION 
Sec. 301. Sense of Congress. 
Sec. 302. Domestic crewed vehicle demonstration. 
Sec. 303. Human rating requirements. 
Sec. 304. International crewed vehicle initiative. 
Sec. 305. ISS crew transfer and crew rescue capability. 
Sec. 306. Commercial space launch range study. 
Sec. 307. Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle use. 
Sec. 308. Exploration crew rescue. 
TITLE IV—AUTHORIZATION OF EXTRAORDINARY PAYMENTS IN 
CONNECTION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 
Sec. 401. Authorization of extraordinary payments. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The United States has been the preeminent 
leader in human spaceflight for nearly 50 years. 
Under NASA’s leadership, this Nation has engaged 
many countries, including former adversaries, in a 
series of peaceful space missions that have contrib-
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uted to mutual trust and understanding that con-
tinue to this day. 
(2) The planning and development of the Inter-
national Space Station is the culmination of many of 
these collaborations, bringing together through 
NASA’s leadership a number of foreign partners to 
invest and participate in its construction and oper-
ation. It is the most technologically challenging and 
complex project ever undertaken. The United States 
has been the largest contributor, having invested ap-
proximately $100,000,000,000 developing, building, 
and transporting components of the International 
Space Station to orbit. 
(3) Based on previous agreements signed in 
1998 between NASA and the Russian Space Agency 
ROSCOSMOS, the United States is obligated to 
provide crew rescue capability for 4 space station 
crew members at all times. With the space station 
crew size currently limited to 3, the United States 
is fulfilling its space station emergency crew rescue 
obligation by paying Russia for those capabilities 
using the 3-person Soyuz capsules, which are the 
only manned spacecraft capable of remaining on- 
orbit for up to 6 months at a time. 
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