June 24, 2020 - Issue: Vol. 166, No. 116 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 2nd Session

[Page S3273]
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                  NEIL A. ARMSTRONG TEST FACILITY ACT

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 433, S. 2472.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 2472) to redesignate the NASA John H. Glenn 
     Research Center at Plum Brook Station, Ohio, as the NASA John 
     H. Glenn Research Center at the Neil A. Armstrong Test 
     Facility.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill, 
which had been reported from the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered 
read a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be 
considered made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there an objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 2472) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed, as follows

                                S. 2472

       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 ``Neil A. Armstrong Test 
     Facility Act''.

     SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

       Congress finds as follows:
       (1) Neil A. Armstrong, through his own definition, was 
     first and foremost as a test pilot.
       (2) A native of Wapakoneta, Ohio, Armstrong began his 
     inspiring career in space exploration in Cleveland, Ohio, at 
     what is now the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center.
       (3) Becoming the first human to land a spacecraft, and then 
     set foot upon, the moon, represents the greatest dream of any 
     test pilot.
       (4) Therefore, it is fitting that the premier aeronautics 
     and space test station in Ohio should be renamed in his 
     honor.

     SEC. 3. REDESIGNATION OF NASA JOHN H. GLENN RESEARCH CENTER 
                   AT PLUM BROOK STATION, OHIO, AS NASA JOHN H. 
                   GLENN RESEARCH CENTER AT THE NEIL A. ARMSTRONG 
                   TEST FACILITY.

       (a) Redesignation.--The NASA John H. Glenn Research Center 
     at Plum Brook Station, Ohio, is hereby redesignated as the 
     NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at the Neil A. Armstrong 
     Test Facility.
       (b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, 
     document, paper, or other record of the United States to the 
     station referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a 
     reference to the ``NASA John H. Glenn Center at the Neil A. 
     Armstrong Test Facility''.
       (c) Savings.--Nothing in this section shall be construed to 
     alter the relationship between the Plum Brook Station and the 
     NASA John H. Glenn Research Center.

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