[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 5]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR1214.306]

[Page 118]
 
                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
 
                   CHAPTER V--NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
                          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.