---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 18384"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "18384"
heading: "Decadal results"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/18384"
units:
  - "Chapter 159 — Space Exploration, Technology, and Science"
  - "Subchapter VII — Space Science"
---

# §18384. Decadal results


[NASA](/usc/42/18302.md?p=6) shall take into account the current decadal surveys from the National Academies’ Space Studies Board when submitting the President’s budget request to the Congress.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–267, title VIII, § 805, Oct. 11, 2010, 124 Stat. 2833.)