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Title 51, National and Commercial Space ProgramsRelease 119-110

§40305 Specific National Needs

Title 51 › Subtitle IV — Aeronautics and Space Research and Education › CHAPTER 403 — NATIONAL SPACE GRANT COLLEGE AND FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM › § 40305

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Identify national space needs and problems, and fund work to solve them. The Administrator must do that and may give grants or sign contracts to meet those needs. A grant or contract can pay up to 100 percent of a project's total cost. Anyone may apply, and the Administrator can ask for applications. Applications must follow the form and content the Administrator sets by regulation. Grants and contracts must follow the limits in paragraphs (2) and (4) of section 40304(d) and any other terms the Administrator finds necessary.

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Title 51, §40305

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(a)Identification of Specific Needs and Grant-Making and Contracting Authority.—
The Administrator shall identify specific national needs and problems relating to space. The Administrator may make grants or enter into contracts under this section with respect to such needs or problems. The amount of any such grant or contract may equal up to 100 percent of the total cost of the project involved.
(b)Applications for Grants or Contracts.—
Any person may apply to the Administrator for a grant or contract under this section. In addition, the Administrator may invite applications with respect to specific national needs or problems identified under subsection (a). Application shall be made in such form and manner, and with such content and other submissions, as the Administrator shall by regulation prescribe. Any grant made, or contract entered into, under this section shall be subject to the limitations and provisions set forth in paragraphs (2) and (4) of section 40304(d) of this title and to such other terms, conditions, and requirements as the Administrator considers necessary or appropriate.

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Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 4030542 U.S.C. 2486e.Pub. L. 100–147, title II, § 207, Oct. 30, 1987, 101 Stat. 873. In subsection (a), the words “up to 100 percent” are substituted for “100 percent, or any lesser percent” to eliminate unnecessary words.

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51 U.S.C. § 40305

Title 51, National and Commercial Space Programs

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110