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H.R. 4158, introduced in March, will be marked up by the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Science, Space and Technology this Thursday. A bill “to confirm full ownership rights for certain United States astronauts to artifacts from the astronauts’ space missions,” the legislation is co-sponsored by 32 of the committee’s 36 members. The bill, if passed into law, will resolve what NASA chief Charles Bolden described as “fundamental misunderstandings and unclear policies” with regard to the mementos saved by the astronauts from the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab and ASTP programs.

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