51 U.S.C. § 50908
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES | ||
Revised Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
70107(a) | 49 App.:2606 (last sentence). | Oct. 30, 1984, Pub. L. 98-575, §§7 (last sentence), 10, 98 Stat. 3058, 3059. |
70107(b) | 49 App.:2609(b). | |
70107(c) | 49 App.:2609(a). | |
70107(d) | 49 App.:2609(c). | |
70107(e) | 49 App.:2609(d). |
EDITORIAL NOTES
AMENDMENTS2015-Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 114-90 substituted "to any human being" for "to crew or space flight participants" in two places.2010-Pub. L. 111-314, §4(d)(2), (3)(H), successively renumbered section 70107 of title 49 and section 70107 of this title as this section.Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 111-314, §4(d)(5)(J), substituted "section 50905(c)" for "section 70105(c)".Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 111-314, §4(d)(5)(K), substituted "section 50912" for "section 70110". 2004-Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 108-492, §2(c)(18), designated existing text as par. (1) and added par. (2). Subsecs. (d) to (f). Pub. L. 108-492, §2(c)(19), added subsec. (d) and redesignated former subsecs. (d) and (e) as (e) and (f), respectively.
- United States
- "United States" means the States of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the territories and possessions of the United States.
- crew
- "crew" means any employee of a licensee or transferee, or of a contractor or subcontractor of a licensee or transferee, who performs activities in the course of that employment directly relating to the launch, reentry, or other operation of or in a launch vehicle or reentry vehicle that carries human beings.
- launch
- "launch" means to place or try to place a launch vehicle or reentry vehicle and any payload or human being from Earth-(A) in a suborbital trajectory;(B) in Earth orbit in outer space; or(C) otherwise in outer space,including activities involved in the preparation of a launch vehicle or payload for launch, when those activities take place at a launch site in the United States.
- reentry
- "reenter" and "reentry" mean to return or attempt to return, purposefully, a reentry vehicle and its payload or human beings, if any, from Earth orbit or from outer space to Earth.