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Appendix B: Excerpt from NASA Authorization Act of FY 2000
Pages 33-33

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... 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 Space Flight 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) recommendations for improving the United States scientific community's ability to maximize the research potential of the International Space Station, including an assessment of the relative costs and benefits of(A)
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