Sponsor
Ashley Brooke Moody
Senator · R-FL
Senator · R-FL
The bill supplies NASA with a locally controlled, predictable revenue stream to speed KSC repairs and support commercial space activity, but it raises costs for private users, could reduce direct appropriations scrutiny, and creates a potential funding cliff when assessment authority expires in 2035.
Taxpayers, federal employees, and KSC operations: Allows NASA to collect and use assessments to fund and accelerate Kennedy Space Center (KSC) capital repairs and modernization without waiting for annual appropriations.
Commercial launch providers, small space businesses, and researchers: Creates a predictable revenue stream for KSC that can support commercial and public space activities and lower barriers to entry for private launch providers.
Taxpayers and Congress: Requires regular reporting to Congress with accounting and plans for the Fund, increasing transparency and congressional oversight of how assessment revenues are spent.
Small commercial users and customers: Assessments on KSC agreements will raise costs for commercial users, which are likely to be passed on to customers or reduce firms' competitiveness.
Taxpayers and congressional oversight: Treating collected assessments as an on‑budget funding source could reduce pressure for direct Congressional appropriations scrutiny and shift how costs are allocated or understood.
Federal employees and taxpayers: The authority to collect assessments expires in 2035, creating potential future funding uncertainty or gaps for ongoing projects and maintenance at KSC after expiration.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Allows NASA to run a pilot to accept private/public investments for Kennedy Space Center infrastructure and deposit collected assessments into a Treasury fund for KSC projects.
Introduced July 31, 2025 by Ashley Brooke Moody · Last progress July 31, 2025
Creates a pilot program letting NASA accept private and public investment for specific infrastructure projects at Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Collected assessments from agreements at KSC are deposited into a new Treasury “Infrastructure Investment Fund” that NASA may use to repair, renovate, expand, operate, and modernize NASA‑owned infrastructure at KSC, with improvements remaining U.S. property. The authority to collect assessments expires December 31, 2035, and NASA must report to relevant congressional committees within 180 days of enactment and annually thereafter with accounting and project plans.