Goals and objectives
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(a) Long-term goalsThe long-term goals of the human space flight and exploration efforts of NASA shall be—
(1)
to expand permanent human presence beyond low-Earth orbit and to do so, where practical, in a manner involving international, academic, and industry partners;
(2)
crewed missions and progress toward achieving the goal in paragraph (1) to enable the potential for subsequent human exploration and the extension of human presence throughout the solar system; and
(3)
to enable a capability to extend human presence, including potential human habitation on another celestial body and a thriving space economy in the 21st Century.[1]