Re: Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act

At 11:10 PM 10/8/2004 -0400, [email protected] wrote:

>The House passed the bill. It is the Senate which added the impossible safety
>language in an effort to stop private space travel and preserve space for
>MacBoeing et al. I'll bet that it's our big aerospace/weapons industry 
>lobbyists

Nope.  It was well meaning staffers in the Senate who honestly thought they 
were doing a good thing.  They actual effect of the language was not the 
intended effect.

BTW, even BoLock couldn't meet the requirements of the new language.  They 
might try, with unmanned vehicles.  Let's see...crunch crunch...  Yep.  If 
they demonstrated 700,000 consecutive safe flights with an unmanned 
vehicle, FAA would have to let them fly humans under the new 
language.  That's two flights a day for less than a thousand years.  No 
worries.

-R

Randall Clague
Government Liaison
XCOR Aerospace
[email protected]
661-824-4714


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