WASHINGTON — Providing federal funding for commercial spaceports is the goal of Congressman Dale Strong’s bipartisan bill to bolster space transportation.

The Spaceport Project Opportunities for Resilient Transportation (SPACEPORT) Act would help develop more infrastructure projects at spaceports, which are launch and reentry sites for spacecraft. It updated the Federal Aviation Administration’s Space Transportation Infrastructure Matching grant program, which provides federal grants for spaceport infrastructure to better meet the needs of civil, commercial and national security launches.

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