---
kind: "section"
citation: "51 U.S.C. § 70903"
title: "51"
title_heading: "National and Commercial Space Programs"
number: "70903"
heading: "International Space Station research"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/51/70903"
units:
  - "Subtitle VII — Access to Space"
  - "Chapter 709 — International Space Station"
---

# §70903. International Space Station research


The [Administrator](/usc/51/10101.md?p=2) shall—

- (1) carry out a program of microgravity research consistent with [section 40904 of this title](/usc/51/40904.md); and
- (2) consider the need for a life sciences centrifuge and any associated holding facilities.

## 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) |
| 70903 | 42 U.S.C. 16766(1), (2). | Pub. L. 109–155, title V, § 506(1), (2), Dec. 30, 2005, 119 Stat. 2930. |