Title 51, National and Commercial Space ProgramsRelease 119-102
§31301 Healthcare Program
Title 51 › Subtitle III — Administrative Provisions › CHAPTER 313 — HEALTHCARE › § 31301
Summary
The Administrator must make a plan to study how spaceflight affects people’s health over time. While making the plan, the Administrator must think about whether to create a lifetime healthcare program for Administration astronauts and their families, or use other ways to collect needed health information from astronauts and retired astronauts.
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Title 51, §31301
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The Administrator shall develop a plan to better understand the longitudinal health effects of space flight on humans. In the development of the plan, the Administrator shall consider the need for the establishment of a lifetime healthcare program for Administration astronauts and their families or other methods to obtain needed health data from astronauts and retired astronauts.
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Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 3130142 U.S.C. 16822.Pub. L. 109–155, title VII, § 708, Dec. 30, 2005, 119 Stat. 2938.
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51 U.S.C. § 31301
Title 51, National and Commercial Space Programs
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102