[IP] Congress Plans Space Tourism Regulation
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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 8, 2004 11:52:26 PM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Congress Plans Space Tourism Regulation
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[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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