NASA Artifacts Bill Introduced in House

摘要

A bill to allow NASA's Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts to retain spaceflight artifacts that have been in their possession since leaving the astronaut corps was introduced March 7 in the U.S. House of Representatives. The legislation, co-sponsored by Reps. Ralph Hall (R-Texas) and Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), would stop NASA from going after astronauts who seek to sell personal logs, checklists, test articles and other castoff keepsakes from their spaceflights by conferring to them full ownership of such mementos.