Exploration plan and programs

construct an architecture and implementation plan for the Administration’s human exploration program that is not critically dependent on the achievement of milestones by fixed dates; implement an exploration research and technology development program to enable human and robotic operations consistent with section 20302(b) of this title; conduct an in-situ resource utilization technology program to develop the capability to use space resources to increase independence from Earth, and sustain exploration beyond low-Earth orbit; and pursue aggressively automated rendezvous and docking capabilities that can support the International Space Station and other mission requirements. The Administrator shall— (Source: (Pub. L. 111–314, § 3, Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3430; Pub. L. 115–10, title IV, § 415, Mar. 21, 2017, 131 Stat. 34.))