Bill > HR8837

This bill requires the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop a celestial time standardization, including a coordinated lunar time, to support future operations and infrastructure on and around the Moon and other celestial bodies. The bill expresses the sense of Congress that United States leadership in developing such time standardization is important for advancing science, exploration, commercial growth, and international partnerships, and will benefit other spacefaring countries and entities. The bill directs NASA to coordinate with relevant federal entities and consult with private sector, academic, and international standards-setting bodies in developing the strategy to implement a coordinated lunar time, which should be traceable to Coordinated Universal Time, accurate for precision navigation and science, resilient to loss of contact with Earth, and scalable to space environments beyond the Earth-Moon system.