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Appendix L: Excerpt from NASA Authorization Act of FY 2001
Pages 89-89

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... an assessment of the United States scientific community's readiness to use the International Space Station for life and microgravity research; (2) an assessment of the current and projected factors limiting the United States scientific community's ability to maximize the research potential of the International Space Station, including, but not limited to, the past and present availability of resources in the life and microgravity research accounts within the Office of Human Spaceflight and the Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications and the past, present, and projected access to space of the scientific community; and (3)
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  • jointly conduct
  • factors limiting
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