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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2313 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis- |
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| 6 | 6 | | tration to develop celestial time standardization to support future oper- |
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| 7 | 7 | | ations and infrastructure on and around the Moon and other celestial |
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| 8 | 8 | | bodies other than Earth, and for other purposes. |
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| 9 | 9 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 10 | 10 | | MARCH25, 2025 |
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| 11 | 11 | | Ms. M |
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| 12 | 12 | | CCLELLANintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 13 | 13 | | Committee on Science, Space, and Technology |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To require the Administrator of the National Aeronautics |
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| 16 | 16 | | and Space Administration to develop celestial time stand- |
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| 17 | 17 | | ardization to support future operations and infrastruc- |
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| 18 | 18 | | ture on and around the Moon and other celestial bodies |
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| 19 | 19 | | other than Earth, and for other purposes. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 21 | 21 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 23 | 23 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Celestial Time Stand-4 |
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| 24 | 24 | | ardization Act’’. 5 |
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| 28 | 28 | | SEC. 2. CELESTIAL TIME STANDARDIZATION. 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | (a) S |
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| 30 | 30 | | ENSE OFCONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | gress that— 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (1) United States leadership of a sustained 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | presence on the Moon and in deep space exploration 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | is important for advancing science, exploration, com-6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | mercial growth, and international partnership; 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (2) the Artemis and Moon to Mars program of 8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (NASA) will involve governmental, commercial, aca-10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | demic, and international partners where there is a 11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | need for interoperability between systems; 12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (3) the use of Coordinated Universal Time has 13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | challenges when used beyond Earth at other celestial 14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | bodies, due to relativistic effects; 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (4) the United States should lead in developing 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | time standardization for the Moon and other celes-17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | tial bodies other than Earth to support interoper-18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | ability and safe and sustainable operations; and 19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (5) development of such standardization will ad-20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | vance United States leadership in setting standards 21 |
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| 50 | 50 | | for global competitiveness, and will benefit other 22 |
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| 51 | 51 | | spacefaring countries and entities. 23 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (b) D |
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| 53 | 53 | | EVELOPMENT OF CELESTIALTIMESTANDARD-24 |
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| 54 | 54 | | IZATION.—The Administrator of NASA, in consultation 25 |
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| 58 | 58 | | with the Director of the Office of Science and Technology 1 |
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| 59 | 59 | | Policy, shall carry out the following: 2 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (1) Enable the development of celestial time 3 |
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| 61 | 61 | | standardization, including by leading the study and 4 |
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| 62 | 62 | | definition of a coordinated lunar time. 5 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (2) Develop a strategy to implement a coordi-6 |
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| 64 | 64 | | nated lunar time that would support future oper-7 |
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| 65 | 65 | | ations and infrastructure on and around the Moon. 8 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (3) In carrying out paragraphs (1) and (2)— 9 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (A) coordinate with relevant Federal enti-10 |
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| 68 | 68 | | ties, including the Department of Commerce, 11 |
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| 69 | 69 | | the Department of Defense, the Department of 12 |
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| 70 | 70 | | State, and the Department of Transportation; 13 |
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| 71 | 71 | | and 14 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (B) consult with relevant— 15 |
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| 73 | 73 | | (i) private sector entities; 16 |
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| 74 | 74 | | (ii) academic entities; and 17 |
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| 75 | 75 | | (iii) international standards setting 18 |
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| 76 | 76 | | bodies and international partners. 19 |
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| 77 | 77 | | (4) Incorporate the following features of a co-20 |
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| 78 | 78 | | ordinated lunar time, to the extent practicable, in 21 |
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| 79 | 79 | | the development of the strategy developed pursuant 22 |
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| 80 | 80 | | to paragraph (2): 23 |
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| 81 | 81 | | (A) Traceability to Coordinated Universal 24 |
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| 82 | 82 | | Time. 25 |
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| 86 | 86 | | (B) Accuracy sufficient to support preci-1 |
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| 87 | 87 | | sion navigation and science. 2 |
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| 88 | 88 | | (C) Resilience to loss of contact with 3 |
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| 89 | 89 | | Earth. 4 |
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| 90 | 90 | | (D) Scalability to space environments be-5 |
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| 91 | 91 | | yond the Earth-Moon system. 6 |
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| 92 | 92 | | (c) B |
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| 93 | 93 | | RIEFING.—Not later than two years after the 7 |
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| 94 | 94 | | date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of 8 |
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| 95 | 95 | | NASA shall brief the Committee on Science, Space, and 9 |
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| 96 | 96 | | Technology of the House of Representatives and the Com-10 |
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| 97 | 97 | | mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the 11 |
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| 98 | 98 | | Senate on the strategy developed pursuant to subsection 12 |
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| 99 | 99 | | (b)(2), including relevant plans, timelines, and resources 13 |
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| 100 | 100 | | required for the implementation of a coordinated lunar 14 |
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| 101 | 101 | | time pursuant to such strategy. 15 |
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