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title: "51 U.S.C. § 31301"
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title_number: 51
title_name: "NATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL SPACE PROGRAMS"
chapter_number: "313"
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# 51 U.S.C. § 31301 - Healthcare program

## Text

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.

(Pub. L. 111–314, § 3, Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3376.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (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.