[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: 14CFR1214.602]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

                          SPACE ADMINISTRATION

 

PART 1214_SPACE FLIGHT--Table of Contents

 

          Subpart 1214.6_Mementos Aboard Space Shuttle Flights

 

Sec. 1214.602  Policy.



    (a) Premise. Mementos are welcome aboard Space Shuttle flights. 

However, they are flown as a courtesy--not as an entitlement. The 

Associate Administrator for Space Flight is free to make exceptions to 

this accommodation without explanation. Moreover, mementos are ballast 

not payload. They can be reduced or eliminated (by the Deputy Director, 

Space Shuttle Program, Johnson Space Center) for weight, volume, or 

other technical reasons without reference to higher authority.

    (b) Constraints. Mementos to be carried on Space Shuttle flights 

must be approved by the Associate Administrator for Space Flight and are 

stowed only in an OFK or a PPK. Mementos will not be carried within 

payload containers, including Get-Away Specials, or in any other 

container or locker aboard the Space Shuttle, other than within the 

designated OFK or PPK.

    (c) Economic Gain. Items carried in an OFK or a PPK will not be 

sold, transferred for sale, used or transferred for personal gain, or 

used or transferred for any commercial or fund-raising purpose. Items 

such as philatelic materials and coins that, by their nature, lend 

themselves to exploitation by the recipients, or create problems with 

respect to good taste; or that are large, bulky, or heavy items (in the 

context of the OFK's size, as indicated in Sec. 1214.601(b) of this 

part) will not be approved for flight.