Congress Plans Space Tourism Regulation

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () dandin com>
Date: October 8, 2004 11:52:26 PM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Congress Plans Space Tourism Regulation
Reply-To: dewayne () warpspeed com

[Note:  This item comes from Slashdot.  Go to the orignal source to 
pick up all the links embedded in the story.  I find this item 
shocking.  The historic flight of SS1 is barely over and our government 
is rushing at warpspeed to regulate 'space tourism'.  Simply amazing 
behavior.  Besides the obvious impacts on innovation in this field due 
to the uncertainly that it now creates, all this can just end up 
driving these sorts of ventures offshore.  The latest word is that this 
bill has been shelved for this session of Congress. DLH]

Congress Plans Space Tourism Regulation

Posted by michael on Thursday October 07, @02:22PM
from the long-arm-reaches-outer-space dept.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/07/1817224

 ackthpt writes "No new venture seems to escape some regulation, as is 
the case with the budding space tourism industry. As I piloted my 
personal groundcraft through pea-soup fog this morning (observing about 
half the others driving with lights off) CNN News mentioned impending 
regulation and legislation is on the way to govern commercial space 
transportation. Among concerns are safety of uninvolved public (to 
ensure boosters or other launch vehicle parts don't land on the 
unsuspecting public), assessing risk to passengers and level of fitness 
necessary to withstand the forces and conditions of spaceflight. 
Addressing such concerns are the FAA's office of commercial space 
transportation and the Commerce Department's Office of Space 
Commercialization and of course the US Congress."



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