---
kind: "section"
citation: "51 U.S.C. § 40104"
title: "51"
title_heading: "National and Commercial Space Programs"
number: "40104"
heading: "Cooperation among Mission Directorates"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/51/40104"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Aeronautics and Space Research and Education"
  - "Chapter 401 — Aeronautics"
  - "Subchapter I — General"
---

# §40104. Cooperation among Mission Directorates


Research and development activities performed by the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate with the primary objective of assisting in the development of a flight project in another Mission Directorate shall be funded by the Mission Directorate seeking assistance.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–314, § 3, Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3379.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 40104 | 42 U.S.C. 17724. | Pub. L. 110–422, title III, § 307, Oct. 15, 2008, 122 Stat. 4788. |