42 U.S.C. § 18421 — Study of potential commercial orbital platform program impact on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

submitted 16 years ago by Pub. L. 111-267 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 192 words · no verdicts yet

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NASA is uniquely good at inspiring students in science, technology, engineering, and math. NASA must study what past student space programs achieved, and look at whether a new program flying student experiments on commercial platforms would help. The study must also flag what NASA would need to figure out before deciding whether such a program makes sense.

NASA has a special ability to inspire science, technology, engineering, and math education in the United States. To make the most of that ability, the Administrator must carry out a study with four goals. (1) Identify the benefits and lessons learned from NASA's past and current orbital student programs, including at least the Get Away Special program and the Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle School Students program, on STEM education. (2) Assess how a new program might affect STEM education — one that would help develop scientific and educational payloads involving U.S. students and educators, and fly them on commercial orbital platforms once those are available and working, aiming for frequent, regular launches. (3) Identify what NASA expertise — in science, engineering, payload development, and payload operations — could support a STEM program using commercial orbital platforms. (4) Identify the issues NASA would need to work out before it could properly judge whether such a program is worthwhile and doable.

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A fundamental and unique capability of NASA is in stimulating science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education in the United States. In ensuring maximum use of that capability, the Administrator shall carry out a study to—

(1)

identify the benefits of and lessons learned from ongoing and previous NASA orbital student programs including, at a minimum, the Get Away Special (GAS) and Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle School Students (EarthKAM) programs, on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education;

(2)

assess the potential impacts on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education of a program that would facilitate the development of scientific and educational payloads involving United States students and educators and the flights of those payloads on commercially available orbital platforms, when available and operational, with the goal of providing frequent and regular payload launches;

(3)

identify NASA expertise, such as NASA science, engineering, payload development, and payload operations, that could be made available to facilitate a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics program using commercial orbital platforms; and

(4)

identify the issues that would need to be addressed before NASA could properly assess the merits and feasibility of the program described in paragraph (2).

Source credit: (Pub. L. 111–267, title X, § 1003, Oct. 11, 2010, 124 Stat. 2838; Pub. L. 111–358, title II, § 205(a), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3995.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

2010Enacted · Pub. L. 111-267 · 124 Stat. 2838
2011Amended · Pub. L. 111-358 · 124 Stat. 3995

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