- applicable parties
means—
- citizen of the United States
means—
- crew
means any employee of a licensee or transferee, or of a contractor or subcontractor of a licensee or transferee, who performs activities in the course of that employment directly relating to the launch, reentry, or other operation of or in a launch vehicle or reentry vehicle that carries human beings.
- direct costs
means the actual costs that—
- executive agency
has the same meaning given that term in section 105 of title 5.
- government astronaut
means an individual who—
- international partner astronaut
means an individual designated under Article 11 of the International Space Station Intergovernmental Agreement, by a partner to that agreement other than the United States, as qualified to serve as an International Space Station crew member.
- International Space Station Intergovernmental Agreement
means the Agreement Concerning Cooperation on the International Space Station, signed at Washington January 29, 1998 (TIAS 12927).
- launch
means to place or try to place a launch vehicle or reentry vehicle and any payload or human being from Earth— including activities involved in the preparation of a launch vehicle or payload for launch, when those activities take place at a launch site in the United States.
- launch property
means an item built for, or used in, the launch preparation or launch of a launch vehicle.
- launch services
means—
- launch site
means the location on Earth from which a launch takes place (as defined in a license the Secretary issues or transfers under this chapter) and necessary facilities at that location.
- launch vehicle
means—
- obtrusive space advertising
means advertising in outer space that is capable of being recognized by a human being on the surface of the Earth without the aid of a telescope or other technological device.
- payload
means an object that a person undertakes to place in outer space by means of a launch vehicle or reentry vehicle, including components of the vehicle specifically designed or adapted for that object.
- permit
means an experimental permit issued under section 50906.
- person
means an individual and an entity organized or existing under the laws of a State or country.
- reentry services
means—
- reentry site
means the location on Earth to which a reentry vehicle is intended to return (as defined in a license the Secretary issues or transfers under this chapter).
- reentry vehicle
means a vehicle designed to return from Earth orbit or outer space to Earth, or a reusable launch vehicle designed to return from Earth orbit or outer space to Earth, substantially intact.
- space flight participant
means an individual, who is not crew or a government astronaut, carried within a launch vehicle or reentry vehicle.
- space support vehicle
means a vehicle that is—
- space support vehicle flight
means a flight in the air that—
- State
means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and a territory or possession of the United States.
- suborbital rocket
means a vehicle, rocket-propelled in whole or in part, intended for flight on a suborbital trajectory, and the thrust of which is greater than its lift for the majority of the rocket-powered portion of its ascent.
- suborbital trajectory
means the intentional flight path of a launch vehicle, reentry vehicle, or any portion thereof, whose vacuum instantaneous impact point does not leave the surface of the Earth.
- third party
means a person except—
- United States
means the States of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the territories and possessions of the United States.