51 U.S.C. § 31301

Healthcare program

The Administrator shall develop a plan to better understand the longitudinal health effects of space flight on humans. In the development of the plan, the Administrator shall consider the need for the establishment of a lifetime healthcare program for Administration astronauts and their families or other methods to obtain needed health data from astronauts and retired astronauts.

( Pub. L. 111–314, § 3 , Dec. 18, 2010 , 124 Stat. 3376 .)