Title 51 — National and Commercial Space ProgramsRelease 119-90

§2 Findings.

Title 51 › Subtitle Subtitle IV— Aeronautics and Space Research and Education › Chapter 409— MISCELLANEOUS › § 2

Last updated May 14, 2026|Official source

Summary

Lists three NASA programs that connect students with STEM role models and learning chances. NASA GIRLS and NASA BOYS are virtual mentoring programs that use common video chat tools to pair NASA mentors with students across the country so they can meet engineers, scientists, and technologists. Aspire to Inspire (A2I) has early-career women at NASA show girls real STEM jobs and careers. The SISTER program at Goddard gives middle school girls exposure to nontraditional careers by meeting women engineers, mathematicians, scientists, technicians, and researchers.

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Title 51, §2

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“The Congress finds that—

“(1)NASA GIRLS and NASA BOYS are virtual mentoring programs using commercially available video chat programs to pair National Aeronautics and Space Administration mentors with young students anywhere in the country. NASA GIRLS and NASA BOYS give young students the opportunity to interact and learn from real engineers, scientists, and technologists.

“(2)The Aspire to Inspire (A2I) program engages young girls to present science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) career opportunities through the real lives and jobs of early career women at NASA.

“(3)The Summer Institute in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Research (SISTER) program at the Goddard Space Flight Center is designed to increase awareness of, and provide an opportunity for, female middle school students to be exposed to and explore nontraditional career fields with Goddard Space Flight Center women engineers, mathematicians, scientists, technicians, and researchers.

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51 U.S.C. § 2

Title 51 — National and Commercial Space Programs

Last Updated

May 14, 2026

Release point: 119-90