FAA Wants Your Opinion On Commercial Space Rules 160
coondoggie writes "If you have an opinion about how you think the commercial space flight world should be regulated, the FAA wants to hear from you. On Thursday, May 26, 2011 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Cocoa Beach Oceanfront in Florida it will hold a public hearing where the FAA says it wants to gather information about how to define what it calls a regulatory framework for orbital human spaceflight."
Re:No jurisdiction (Score:3, Informative)
The hell they don't, the mandate of the FAA is to regulate and oversee all aspects of civil aviation in the U.S. Aviation includes everything from zero to 50 miles up for the US regulators.
Re:Rule #1 (Score:2, Informative)
The no exploding rule is more important than you think. The damage or destruction of satellites, space stations and spacecraft from collision with debris in Earth's and orbit will become a major problem. Just one tiny bolt from a junk heap w/ a high velocity orbiting around the earth colliding with a space ship carrying passengers to the moon/iss/etc is enough to kill everyone on board. Even bigger space-junk will cause a bigger problem.
Think of the mars-children!