OUTPACE in Space Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] [Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 8198 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8198 To amend title 51, United States Code, to advance American space operations, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 6, 2026 Mr. Fong introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend title 51, United States Code, to advance American space operations, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Optimizing United States Technology to Preempt Adversarial Communist Expansion in Space Act'' or the ``OUTPACE in Space Act''. SEC. 2. STRENGTHENING LAUNCH AND REENTRY. (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that-- (1) the commercial space transportation industry and the emerging hypersonic industry will remain a critical component of the co…