President's Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy
Headline: Creates Commission to Guide United States Space Exploration Policy
What it does: The agency that runs the nation's civil space program must provide administrative support and funding for a presidential commission to recommend how to implement United States space exploration policy.
- Creates new advisory body to shape national space exploration plans.
- Requires the space agency to fund and support commission activities.
- May influence use of lunar resources, private-sector roles, and youth STEM programs.
Summary
This order creates a commission to recommend how to carry out the President's space exploration vision. It will study science goals on the Moon and elsewhere, technologies including use of local resources, criteria for destinations, management options, private and international roles, and ways to boost youth interest in STEM.
Up to nine members will be named by the President, and the agency that runs the nation's civil space program will provide administrative support and funding. The commission must submit a final report within 120 days of its first meeting and will end soon after.
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