---
kind: "section"
citation: "51 U.S.C. § 40504"
title: "51"
title_heading: "National and Commercial Space Programs"
number: "40504"
heading: "Establishment of electronic data archive"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/51/40504"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Aeronautics and Space Research and Education"
  - "Chapter 405 — Biomedical Research in Space"
---

# §40504. Establishment of electronic data archive


The [Administrator](/usc/51/10101.md?p=2) shall create and maintain a national electronic data archive for biomedical research data obtained from space-based experiments.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–314, § 3, Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3389.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 40504 | 42 U.S.C. 2487e. | Pub. L. 102–588, title VI, § 606, Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5131. |