---
kind: "section"
citation: "51 U.S.C. § 70902"
title: "51"
title_heading: "National and Commercial Space Programs"
number: "70902"
heading: "Allocation of International Space Station research budget"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/51/70902"
units:
  - "Subtitle VII — Access to Space"
  - "Chapter 709 — International Space Station"
---

# §70902. Allocation of International Space Station research budget


The [Administrator](/usc/51/10101.md?p=2) shall allocate at least 15 percent of the funds budgeted for International Space Station research to ground-based, free-flyer, and International Space Station life and microgravity science research that is not directly related to supporting the human exploration program, consistent with [section 40904 of this title](/usc/51/40904.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–314, § 3, Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3436.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 70902 | 42 U.S.C. 16633. | Pub. L. 109–155, title II, § 204, Dec. 30, 2005, 119 Stat. 2916. |

The words “Beginning with fiscal year 2006”, which appeared at the beginning of this section, are omitted as obsolete.