Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the bipartisan Senate companion bill to H.R. 3766, the “One Small Step to Protect Human Heritage in Space Act.” H.R. 3766 was introduced in July 2019 by Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), Ranking Member Frank Lucas (R-OK), Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Chairwoman Kendra Horn (D-OK), and Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Ranking Member Brian Babin (R-TX). The Senate companion, S. 1694, that passed the House today, introduced by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Ted Cruz (R-TX), enacts protections for the Apollo site heritage by making NASA’s recommendations on protecting and preserving U.S. government lunar artifacts a requirement for the agency and its partners’ future activities on the Moon. Additionally, the legislation directs NASA to inform other relevant Federal agencies of the recommendations, and honors the over 400,000 scientists, designers, and researchers who contributed to the Apollo programs, including NASA’s “Hidden Figures” like Katherine Johnson – an African American mathematician who worked at NASA for 35 years and calculated the trajectory of the Apollo 11 flight to the moon as well the trajectories for the spaceflights of astronauts John Glenn and Alan Shepard.