42 U.S.C. § 18323
Multi-purpose crew vehicle
United States · Title 42 — THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE · Status: effective
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- 42 U.S.C. § 18323, Multi-purpose crew vehicle, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/484699
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The Administrator shall continue the development of a multi-purpose crew vehicle to be available as soon as practicable, and no later than for use with the Space Launch System. The vehicle shall continue to advance development of the human safety features, designs, and systems in the Orion project.
It shall be the goal to achieve full operational capability for the transportation vehicle developed pursuant to this subsection by not later than December 31, 2016. For purposes of meeting such goal, the Administrator may undertake a test of the transportation vehicle at the ISS before that date.
The multi-purpose crew vehicle developed pursuant to subsection (a) shall be designed to have, at a minimum, the following:
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2010House: 304–118Senate: no recorded tally