---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 18443"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "18443"
heading: "Eligibility for service of individual currently serving as Administrator of NASA"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/18443"
units:
  - "Chapter 159 — Space Exploration, Technology, and Science"
  - "Subchapter XI — Other Matters"
---

# §18443. Eligibility for service of individual currently serving as Administrator of NASA


The individual serving in the position of [Administrator](/usc/42/18302.md?p=1) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as of October 11, 2010, comes from civilian life and is therefore eligible to serve in such position, in conformance with [section 20111 of title 51](/usc/51/20111.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–267, title XII, § 1204, Oct. 11, 2010, 124 Stat. 2842.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

In text, “section 20111 of title 51” substituted for “section 202 of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (42 U.S.C. 2472(a))” on authority of Pub. L. 111–314, § 5(e), Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3443, which Act enacted Title 51, National and Commercial Space Programs.