OUTPACE in Space Act

This bill directs the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to brief Congress within 60 days on plans to meet airspace needs for commercial space launches and hypersonic flights. It requires the FAA to immediately waive a current safety-risk rule for vehicles returning from space and to issue a new rule within one year on risk standards for launches and reentries over land. It directs the Secretary of Transportation to issue guidance on alternative ways to meet launch rules and to report on how to increase the number of launches and reentries each year. It lets the FAA hire aerospace experts for its commercial space office without the usual competitive hiring steps. It also bars the Departments of Commerce and Transportation from doing commercial space research with certain foreign countries of concern and entities tied to them.

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Sponsors

• Vince Fong Republican sponsor
• 0 cosponsors