1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Spaceflight Training and Astronaut Reform Act or the STAR Act . 2. Experimental permits for space support vehicles (a) Definition of space support vehicle Section 50902 of title 51, United States Code, is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraphs (21) through (25) as paragraphs (22) through (26), respectively; and (2) by inserting after paragraph (20) the following: (21) space support vehicle means an aircraft operating at a spaceport licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration that simulates space flight conditions in support of— (A) training for space flight participants or crew; or (B) testing of space flight hardware. . (b) Experimental permits Section 50906 of such title is amended— (1) in subsection (b)— (A) by inserting space support vehicles, after reentry vehicles, ; and (B) by inserting or training after reentry activities ; (2) in subsection (d)— (A) by striking only for reusable suborbital rockets or reusable launch vehicles that will be launched into a suborbital trajectory or reentered and inserting for reusable suborbital rockets, reusable launch vehicles, or space support vehicles, that will be launched into a suborbital trajectory, reentered, or flown for training or research purposes ; and (B) in paragraph (3), by inserting , or simulating launch, reentry, or space flight conditions before the period; and (3) in subsection (e)(1), by inserting or for a particular space support vehicle, before for the uses described in subsection (d) . (c) Letter of deviation required for experimental permit holder Section 50906 of such title is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection (j)