[Code of Federal Regulations] [Title 14, Volume 4] [Revised as of January 1, 2003] From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access [CITE: 14CFR401.3] [Page 479] TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE CHAPTER III--COMMERCIAL SPACE TRANSPORTATION, FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PART 401--ORGANIZATION AND DEFINITIONS--Table of Contents Sec. 401.3 The Director of Commercial Space Transportation. The Office is headed by a Director appointed by the Secretary of Transportation to exercise the Secretary's authority to license and otherwise regulate commercial space launch activities and to discharge the Secretary's responsibility to encourage, facilitate and promote commercial space launches by the United States private sector.