TITLE 51-NATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL SPACE PROGRAMS
Subtitle I—General (section 10101)
CHAPTER 101—DEFINITIONS (section 10101)
Subtitle II—General Program and Policy Provisions (sections 20101 to 20306)
CHAPTER 201—NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE PROGRAM (sections 20101 to 20164)
SUBCHAPTER I—SHORT TITLE, DECLARATION OF POLICY, AND DEFINITIONS (sections 20101 to 20103)
SUBCHAPTER II—COORDINATION OF AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE ACTIVITIES (sections 20111 to 20117)
- § 20111 — National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- § 20112 — Functions of the Administration
- § 20113 — Powers of the Administration in performance of functions
- § 20114 — Administration and Department of Defense coordination
- § 20115 — International cooperation
- § 20116 — Reports to Congress
- § 20117 — Disposal of excess land
SUBCHAPTER III—GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS (sections 20131 to 20149)
- § 20131 — Public access to information
- § 20132 — Security requirements
- § 20133 — Permission to carry firearms
- § 20134 — Arrest authority
- § 20135 — Property rights in inventions
- § 20136 — Contributions awards
- § 20137 — Malpractice and negligence suits against United States
- § 20138 — Insurance and indemnification
- § 20139 — Insurance for experimental aerospace vehicles
- § 20140 — Appropriations
- § 20141 — Misuse of agency name and initials
- § 20142 — Contracts regarding expendable launch vehicles
- § 20143 — Full cost appropriations account structure
- § 20144 — Prize authority
- § 20145 — Lease of non-excess property
- § 20146 — Retrocession of jurisdiction
- § 20147 — Recovery and disposition authority
- § 20148 — Indemnification; NASA launch services and reentry services
- § 20149 — Medical monitoring and research relating to human space flight
SUBCHAPTER IV—UPPER ATMOSPHERE RESEARCH (sections 20161 to 20164)
CHAPTER 203—RESPONSIBILITIES AND VISION (sections 20301 to 20306)
Subtitle III—Administrative Provisions (sections 30101 to 31505)
CHAPTER 301—APPROPRIATIONS, BUDGETS, AND ACCOUNTING (sections 30101 to 30104)
CHAPTER 303—CONTRACTING AND PROCUREMENT (sections 30301 to 30310)
- § 30301 — Guaranteed customer base
- § 30302 — Quality assurance personnel
- § 30303 — Tracking and data relay satellite services
- § 30304 — Award of contracts to small businesses and disadvantaged individuals
- § 30305 — Outreach program
- § 30306 — Small business contracting
- § 30307 — Requirement for independent cost analysis
- § 30308 — Cost effectiveness calculations
- § 30309 — Use of abandoned and underutilized buildings, grounds, and facilities
- § 30310 — Exception to alternative fuel procurement requirement
CHAPTER 305—MANAGEMENT AND REVIEW (sections 30501 to 30504)
CHAPTER 307—INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND COMPETITION (sections 30701 to 30704)
CHAPTER 309—AWARDS (sections 30901 to 30902)
CHAPTER 311—SAFETY (sections 31101 to 31102)
CHAPTER 313—HEALTHCARE (sections 31301 to 31302)
CHAPTER 315—MISCELLANEOUS (sections 31501 to 31505)
Subtitle IV—Aeronautics and Space Research and Education (sections 40101 to 40909)
CHAPTER 401—AERONAUTICS (sections 40101 to 40141)
SUBCHAPTER I—GENERAL (sections 40101 to 40104)
SUBCHAPTER II—HIGH PRIORITY AERONAUTICS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS (sections 40111 to 40116)
SUBCHAPTER III—SCHOLARSHIPS (section 40131)
SUBCHAPTER IV—DATA REQUESTS (section 40141)
CHAPTER 403—NATIONAL SPACE GRANT COLLEGE AND FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM (sections 40301 to 40311)
- § 40301 — Purposes
- § 40302 — Definitions
- § 40303 — National space grant college and fellowship program
- § 40304 — Grants or contracts
- § 40305 — Specific national needs
- § 40306 — Space grant college and space grant regional consortium
- § 40307 — Space grant fellowship program
- § 40308 — Space grant review panel
- § 40309 — Availability of other Federal personnel and data
- § 40310 — Designation or award to be on competitive basis
- § 40311 — Continuing emphasis
CHAPTER 405—BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH IN SPACE (sections 40501 to 40505)
CHAPTER 407—ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY AIRCRAFT (sections 40701 to 40704)
CHAPTER 409—MISCELLANEOUS (sections 40901 to 40909)
- § 40901 — Science, Space, and Technology Education Trust Fund
- § 40902 — National Aeronautics and Space Administration Endeavor Teacher Fellowship Trust Fund
- § 40903 — Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research—merit grant competition requirements
- § 40904 — Microgravity research
- § 40905 — Program to expand distance learning in rural underserved areas
- § 40906 — Equal access to the Administration’s education programs
- § 40907 — Museums
- § 40908 — Continuation of certain education programs
- § 40909 — Compliance with title IX of Education Amendments of 1972
Subtitle V—Programs Targeting Commercial Opportunities (sections 50101 to 51501)
CHAPTER 501—SPACE COMMERCE (sections 50101 to 50134)
SUBCHAPTER I—GENERAL (section 50101)
SUBCHAPTER II—PROMOTION OF COMMERCIAL SPACE OPPORTUNITIES (sections 50111 to 50116)
SUBCHAPTER III—FEDERAL ACQUISITION OF SPACE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES (sections 50131 to 50134)
CHAPTER 503—COMMERCIAL REUSABLE IN-SPACE TRANSPORTATION (sections 50301 to 50302)
CHAPTER 505—COMMERCIAL SPACE COMPETITIVENESS (sections 50501 to 50506)
CHAPTER 507—OFFICE OF SPACE COMMERCE (sections 50701 to 50703)
CHAPTER 509—COMMERCIAL SPACE LAUNCH ACTIVITIES (sections 50901 to 50924)
- § 50901 — Findings and purposes
- § 50902 — Definitions
- § 50903 — General authority
- § 50904 — Restrictions on launches, operations, and reentries
- § 50905 — License applications and requirements
- § 50906 — Experimental permits
- § 50907 — Monitoring activities
- § 50908 — Effective periods, and modifications, suspensions, and revocations, of licenses
- § 50909 — Prohibition, suspension, and end of launches, operation of launch sites and reentry sites, and reentries
- § 50910 — Preemption of scheduled launches or reentries
- § 50911 — Space advertising
- § 50912 — Administrative hearings and judicial review
- § 50913 — Acquiring United States Government property and services
- § 50914 — Liability insurance and financial responsibility requirements
- § 50915 — Paying claims exceeding liability insurance and financial responsibility requirements
- § 50916 — Disclosing information
- § 50917 — Enforcement and penalty
- § 50918 — Consultation
- § 50919 — Relationship to other executive agencies, laws, and international obligations
- § 50920 — User fees
- § 50921 — Office of Commercial Space Transportation
- § 50922 — Regulations
- § 50923 — Report to Congress
- § 50924 — Space launch and reentry licensing and permitting user fees
CHAPTER 511—SPACE TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE MATCHING GRANTS (sections 51101 to 51105)
CHAPTER 513—SPACE RESOURCE COMMERCIAL EXPLORATION AND UTILIZATION (sections 51301 to 51303)
CHAPTER 515—OFFICE OF SPACEPORTS (section 51501)
Subtitle VI—Earth Observations (sections 60101 to 60608)
CHAPTER 601—LAND REMOTE SENSING POLICY (sections 60101 to 60162)
SUBCHAPTER I—GENERAL (section 60101)
SUBCHAPTER II—LANDSAT (sections 60111 to 60113)
SUBCHAPTER III—LICENSING OF PRIVATE REMOTE SENSING SPACE SYSTEMS (sections 60121 to 60126)
SUBCHAPTER IV—RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND DEMONSTRATION (sections 60131 to 60134)
SUBCHAPTER V—GENERAL PROVISIONS (sections 60141 to 60148)
SUBCHAPTER VI—PROHIBITION OF COMMERCIALIZATION OF WEATHER SATELLITES (sections 60161 to 60162)
CHAPTER 603—REMOTE SENSING (sections 60301 to 60306)
CHAPTER 605—EARTH SCIENCE (sections 60501 to 60506)
CHAPTER 606—SPACE WEATHER (sections 60601 to 60608)
- § 60601 — Space weather
- § 60602 — Integrated strategy
- § 60603 — Sustaining and advancing critical space weather observations
- § 60604 — Research activities
- § 60605 — Space weather data
- § 60606 — Space weather knowledge transfer and information exchange
- § 60607 — Pilot program for obtaining commercial sector space weather data
- § 60608 — Space weather benchmarks
Subtitle VII—Access to Space (sections 70101 to 71302)
CHAPTER 701—USE OF SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM OR ALTERNATIVES (sections 70101 to 70104)
[CHAPTER 703—REPEALED] (section 70301)
CHAPTER 705—EXPLORATION INITIATIVES (sections 70501 to 70508)
- § 70501 — Space shuttle follow-on
- § 70502 — Exploration plan and programs
- § 70503 — Ground-based analog capabilities
- § 70504 — Stepping stone approach to exploration
- § 70505 — Lunar outpost
- § 70506 — Exploration technology research
- § 70507 — Technology development
- § 70508 — Robotic or human servicing of spacecraft
CHAPTER 707—HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION COMMISSION (sections 70701 to 70710)
- § 70701 — Definitions
- § 70702 — Establishment of Commission
- § 70703 — Tasks of Commission
- § 70704 — Composition of Commission
- § 70705 — Powers of Commission
- § 70706 — Public meetings, information, and hearings
- § 70707 — Staff of Commission
- § 70708 — Compensation and travel expenses
- § 70709 — Security clearances for Commission members and staff
- § 70710 — Reporting requirements and termination
CHAPTER 709—INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (sections 70901 to 70907)
- § 70901 — Peaceful uses of space station
- § 70902 — Allocation of International Space Station research budget
- § 70903 — International Space Station research
- § 70904 — International Space Station completion
- § 70905 — National laboratory designation
- § 70906 — International Space Station National Laboratory Advisory Committee
- § 70907 — Maintaining use through at least 2030