National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2010

Pub. L. 111–267

US Codex doesn’t hold the enacted text of this law — the public-law corpus runs from the 113th Congress (2013) onward. What it changed in the U.S. Code, reconstructed from the credit notes, is listed below.

45 sections of the Code credited to this law, found between Public Law 111-137 and Public Law 111-383.

• 42 U.S.C. § 18301 — Findings
• 42 U.S.C. § 18302 — Definitions
• 42 U.S.C. § 18311 — United States human space flight policy
• 42 U.S.C. § 18312 — Goals and objectives
• 42 U.S.C. § 18313 — Assurance of core capabilities
• 42 U.S.C. § 18321 — Human space flight beyond low-Earth orbit
• 42 U.S.C. § 18322 — Space Launch System as follow-on launch vehicle to the Space Shuttle
• 42 U.S.C. § 18323 — Multi-purpose crew vehicle
• 42 U.S.C. § 18324 — Utilization of existing workforce and assets in development of Space Launch System and multi-purpose crew vehicle
• 42 U.S.C. § 18325 — NASA launch support and infrastructure modernization program
• 42 U.S.C. § 18326 — Development of technologies and in-space capabilities for beyond near-Earth space missions
• 42 U.S.C. § 18327 — Report requirement
• 42 U.S.C. § 18341 — Commercial Cargo Development program
• 42 U.S.C. § 18342 — Requirements applicable to development of commercial crew transportation capabilities and services
• 42 U.S.C. § 18351 — Continuation of the International Space Station through 2020
• 42 U.S.C. § 18352 — Maximum utilization of the International Space Station
• 42 U.S.C. § 18353 — Maintenance of the United States segment and assurance of continued operations of the International Space Station.
• 42 U.S.C. § 18354 — Management of the ISS national laboratory
• 42 U.S.C. § 18361 — Sense of Congress on the Space Shuttle program
• 42 U.S.C. § 18362 — Retirement of Space Shuttle orbiters and transition of Space Shuttle program
• 42 U.S.C. § 18363 — Disposition of orbiter vehicles
• 42 U.S.C. § 18371 — Interagency collaboration implementation approach
• 42 U.S.C. § 18372 — Transitioning experimental research to operations
• 42 U.S.C. § 18373 — Decadal Survey missions implementation for Earth observation
• 42 U.S.C. § 18374 — Instrument test-beds and venture class missions
• 42 U.S.C. § 18381 — Technology development
• 42 U.S.C. § 18382 — Suborbital research activities
• 42 U.S.C. § 18383 — In-space servicing
• 42 U.S.C. § 18384 — Decadal results
• 42 U.S.C. § 18385 — On-going restoration of radioisotope thermoelectric generator material production
• 42 U.S.C. § 18386 — Collaboration with ESMD and SOMD on robotic missions
• 42 U.S.C. § 18387 — Near-Earth object survey and policy with respect to threats posed
• 42 U.S.C. § 18388 — Space weather
• 42 U.S.C. § 18401 — Aeronautics research goals
• 42 U.S.C. § 18402 — Research collaboration
• 42 U.S.C. § 18403 — Goal for Agency space technology
• 42 U.S.C. § 18404 — National space technology policy
• 42 U.S.C. § 18405 — Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research Program
• 42 U.S.C. § 18421 — Study of potential commercial orbital platform program impact on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
• 42 U.S.C. § 18431 — Workforce stabilization and critical skills preservation
• 42 U.S.C. § 18441 — National and international orbital debris mitigation
• 42 U.S.C. § 18442 — Reports on program and cost assessment and control assessment
• 42 U.S.C. § 18443 — Eligibility for service of individual currently serving as Administrator of NASA
• 42 U.S.C. § 18444 — Counterfeit parts
• 42 U.S.C. § 18445 — Information security