NASA can let private companies pay to fix its buildings.
S. 4905 — Space Ready 2.0 Act · Filed by Ashley Moody (R-FL) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jun 24, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill lets NASA run a test program until 2031. Private companies can give NASA money or equipment. They can also give work to fix NASA Center buildings. NASA will use that money to upgrade facilities. Companies get back any money they do not spend. Companies cannot be punished for refusing to contribute.
Who it affects
Private companies that work at NASA Centers can help pay for building repairs. NASA gets help fixing its facilities without spending as much federal money.
One thing to notice
Companies that pay for building fixes may get better access to NASA facilities. The bill does not require NASA to tell the public which companies paid.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Jun 24, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jun 24, 2026 — Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $390,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 5 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Ashley Moody, who sponsored the bill, received $2,234,100 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Relativity Space — $390,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- test program — A project that runs for a set time to see if an idea works.
- facilities — Buildings and structures that people use.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (8,779 characters) on Aug 12, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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