[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 5]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR1214.602]

[Page 126-127]
 
                     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.

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    (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.