[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 5]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 14CFR1214.306]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

                          SPACE ADMINISTRATION

 

PART 1214_SPACE FLIGHT--Table of Contents

 

Subpart 1214.3_Payload Specialists for Space Transportation System (STS) 

                                Missions

 

Sec. 1214.306  Payload specialist relationship with sponsoring 

institutions.



    Specialists who are not U.S. Government employees must enter into a 

contractual or other arrangement establishing an obligatory relationship 

with an institution participating in the payload as designated by the 

payload sponsor prior to selection and before entering into training at 

a NASA installation or NASA-designated location. Payload specialists who 

are not otherwise U.S. Government employees will not become U.S. 

Government employees by virtue of being selected as a payload 

specialist. Except as specified in the following paragraphs of this 

section, NASA will not enter into any direct contractual or other 

arrangement with individual payload specialists. Any exception must be 

approved by the NASA Administrator.

    (a) Payload specialists who are not citizens of the United States 

will be required to enter into an agreement with NASA in which they 

agree to accept and be governed by specified standards of conduct. Any 

such agreement will be signed on behalf of NASA by the NASA General 

Counsel or designee.

    (b) Payload specialists who are citizens of the United States and 

who are not employees of the U.S. Government, will be required to enter 

into an agreement with NASA in which they agree to accept and be 

governed by specified standards of conduct. Any such agreement will be 

signed on behalf of NASA by the NASA General Counsel or designee.

    (c) Payload specialists who are employed by a branch, department, or 

agency of the U.S. Government other than NASA may (pursuant to the 

exercise of judgment by the NASA General Counsel) be required to enter 

into an agreement with NASA to accept and be governed by specified 

standards of conduct. Any such agreement will be signed on behalf of 

NASA by the NASA General Counsel or designee.