(1) selected by the Secretary after consultation 
with the Administrator of the National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration, the Director of the Jet 
Propulsion Laboratory, and the Commission of Fine 
Arts; and 
(2) reviewed by the Citizens Coin Advisory 
Committee. 
SEC. 5. ISSUANCE OF COINS. 
(a) QUALITY OF COINS.—Coins minted under this 
Act shall be issued in proof quality only. 
(b) MINT FACILITY.—Only 1 facility of the United 
States Mint may be used to strike any particular combina-
tion of denomination and quality of the coins minted under 
this Act. 
(c) COMMENCEMENT OF ISSUANCE.—The Secretary 
may issue coins minted under this Act beginning January 
1, 2008. 
(d) TERMINATION
OF MINTING AUTHORITY.—No 
coins may be minted under this Act after December 31, 
2008. 
(e) ISSUANCE
OF GOLD COINS.—Each gold coin 
minted under this Act may be issued only as part of a 
complete set with 1 of each of the 9 $1 coins minted under 
this Act. 
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SEC. 6. SALE OF COINS. 
(a) SALE PRICE.—The coins issued under this Act 
shall be sold by the Secretary at a price equal to the sum 
of— 
(1) the face value of the coins; 
(2) the surcharge provided in section 7(a) with 
respect to such coins; and 
(3) the cost of designing and issuing the coins 
(including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, 
overhead expenses, marketing, and shipping). 
(b) PREPAID ORDERS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall accept 
prepaid orders for the coins minted under this Act 
before the issuance of such coins. 
(2) DISCOUNT.—Sale prices with respect to pre-
paid orders under paragraph (1) shall be at a rea-
sonable discount. 
(c) PRESENTATION.—In addition to the issuance of 
coins under this Act in such other methods of presentation 
as the Secretary of the Treasury determines to be appro-
priate, the Secretary shall provide, as a sale option, a pres-
entation case which displays the $50 gold coin in the cen-
ter surrounded by the $1 silver coins in elliptical orbits. 
All such presentation cases shall bear a plaque with appro-
priate inscriptions that include the names and dates of the 
spacecraft missions on which United States astronauts 
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lost their lives over the course of the space program and 
the names of such astronauts. 
SEC. 7. SURCHARGES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—All sales of coins minted under 
this Act shall include a surcharge as follows: 
(1) A surcharge of $50 per coin for the $50 
coin. 
(2) A surcharge of $10 per coin for the $1 coin. 
(b) DISTRIBUTION.—Subject to section 5134(f) of 
title 31, United States Code, all surcharges received by 
the Secretary from the sale of coins issued under this Act 
shall be promptly distributed as follows: 
(1) The first $4,000,000 available for distribu-
tion under this section, to the NASA Family Assist-
ance Fund for the purposes of providing need-based 
financial assistance to the families of NASA per-
sonnel who die as a result of injuries suffered in the 
performance of their official duties. 
(2) Of amounts available for distribution after 
the payment under paragraph (1), 1⁄2 of the next 
$1,000,000 to each of the following: 
(A) The Dr. Ronald E. McNair Edu-
cational (D.R.E.M.E.) Science Literacy Foun-
dation for the purposes of improving and 
strengthening the process of teaching and 
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learning science, math, and technology at all 
educational levels, elementary thru college 
through the promotion of innovative educational 
programs. 
(B) The Dorothy Jemison Foundation for 
Excellence for the purposes of supporting the 
work of the Foundation in building critical 
thinking skills, experiential teaching methods, 
science literacy, and integrated approaches to 
learning and individual responsibility in achiev-
ing excellence. 
(3) The reminder of the amounts available for 
distribution after the payments under paragraphs 
(1) and (2), to the Save America’s Treasures at the 
National Trust for Historic Preservation to be used 
for the preservation and display, at all appropriate 
sites, of vehicles flown as part of the United States 
space program, particularly of surviving space shut-
tle vehicles and artifacts, and of associated equip-
ment. 
(c) AUDITS.—The NASA Family Assistance Fund, 
the Dr. Ronald E. McNair Educational Science Literacy 
Foundation, the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excel-
lence, and the Save America’s Treasures at the National 
Trust for Historic Preservation shall be subject to the 
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