Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The bill (S. 442) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, was read the third time, and passed, as follows: S. 442 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 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 ``National Aeronautics and Space Administration Transition Authorization Act of 2017''. (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents of this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Definitions. TITLE I--AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS Sec. 101. Fiscal year 2017. TITLE II--SUSTAINING NATIONAL SPACE COMMITMENTS Sec. 201. Sense of Congress on sustaining national space commitments. Sec. 202. Findings. TITLE III--MAXIMIZING UTILIZATION OF THE ISS AND LOW-EARTH ORBIT Sec. 301. Operation of the ISS. Sec. 302. Transportation to ISS. Sec. 303. ISS transition plan. Sec. 304. Space communications. Sec. 305. Indemnification; NASA launch services and reentry services. TITLE IV--ADVANCING HUMAN DEEP SPACE EXPLORATION Subtitle A--Human Space Flight and Exploration Goals and Objectives Sec. 411. Human space flight and exploration long-term goals. Sec. 412. Key objectives. Sec. 413. Vision for space exploration. Sec.…
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