IIB 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5345 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JUNE 28, 2018 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation 
AN ACT 
To designate the Marshall Space Flight Center of the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration to provide 
leadership for the U.S. rocket propulsion industrial base, 
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. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘American Leadership 
in Space Technology and Advanced Rocketry Act’’ or the 
‘‘ALSTAR Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Non-military rocket propulsion is an ena-
bling technology for our Nation’s future prosperous 
way of life. 
(2) Non-military rocket propulsion technologies 
are critical to national security, intelligence gath-
ering, communications, weather forecasting, naviga-
tion, communications, entertainment, land use, 
Earth observation, and scientific exploration. 
(3) The non-military rocket propulsion industry 
is a source of high-quality jobs. 
(4) Multiple Federal agencies and companies 
are involved in non-military rocket propulsion re-
search, development, and manufacturing. 
(5) Integration, coordination, and cooperation 
would strengthen the United States non-military 
rocket propulsion industrial base. 
(6) Erosion of the non-military rocket propul-
sion industrial base would seriously impact national 
security, space exploration potential, and economic 
growth. 
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(7) The Marshall Space Flight Center has dec-
ades of experience working with other Government 
agencies and industry partners to study and coordi-
nate these capabilities. 
(8) The Marshall Space Flight Center has made 
historic and unique contributions— 
(A) by bringing stakeholders together to 
work on non-military rocket propulsion indus-
trial base sustainment; 
(B) of technical expertise to key studies 
and review boards; and 
(C) by consistently participating in inter-
agency working groups to address non-military 
rocket propulsion issues. 
SEC. 3. NON-MILITARY ROCKET PROPULSION LEADERSHIP. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the Marshall Space Flight Center is the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration’s lead center 
for non-military rocket propulsion and is essential to sus-
taining and promoting United States leadership in non- 
military rocket propulsion and developing the next genera-
tion of non-military rocket propulsion capabilities. 
(b) LEADERSHIP IN NON-MILITARY ROCKET PRO-
PULSION.—The Marshall Space Flight Center shall pro-
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vide national leadership in NASA in non-military rocket 
propulsion by— 
(1) contributing to interagency coordination for 
the preservation of critical national non-military 
rocket propulsion capabilities; 
(2) collaborating with industry, academia, and 
professional organizations to most effectively use na-
tional capabilities and resources; 
(3) monitoring public- and private-sector non- 
military rocket propulsion activities to develop and 
promote a strong, healthy non-military rocket pro-
pulsion industrial base; 
(4) facilitating technical solutions for existing 
and emerging non-military rocket propulsion chal-
lenges; 
(5) supporting the development and refinement 
of non-military rocket propulsion for small satellites; 
(6) evaluating and recommending, as appro-
priate, new non-military rocket propulsion tech-
nologies for further development; and 
(7) providing information required by national 
decision makers so that policies and other instru-
ments of the Government support the development 
and strengthening of the Nation’s non-military rock-
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et propulsion capabilities throughout the 21st cen-
tury. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 27, 2018. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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