---
kind: "unit"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
key: "ch159/schVII"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter VII"
heading: "Space Science"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/ch159-schVII"
sections_count: 8
---

# Subchapter VII — Space Science

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 159 — Space Exploration, Technology, and Science

## Sections

- [§18381. Technology development](/usc/42/18381.md)
- [§18382. Suborbital research activities](/usc/42/18382.md)
- [§18383. In-space servicing](/usc/42/18383.md)
- [§18384. Decadal results](/usc/42/18384.md)
- [§18385. On-going restoration of radioisotope thermoelectric generator material production](/usc/42/18385.md)
- [§18386. Collaboration with ESMD and SOMD on robotic missions](/usc/42/18386.md)
- [§18387. Near-Earth object survey and policy with respect to threats posed](/usc/42/18387.md)
- [§18388. Repealed.](/usc/42/18388.md)