FAA Wants Your Opinion On Commercial Space Rules

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."

Safety Nazis

[Capt.DrumkenBum]

How about they don't regulate it to death. Spaceflight will be a dangerous undertaking for quite some time. If they try to regulate away all the danger they will make it impossible for any advancement to take place.
(car analogy)If the first cars buit were required to have all the safety features we find on modern cars, we would all still be riding horses.(/car analogy)

Let those who do it decide

[petes_PoV]

Space (and travel in it) should really only be regulated by its inhabitants. For people in another place to impose rules on it sounds a lot like an imperial power imposing its laws on a colony - and we all know how well that works.

Never honk off the people at the top of the gravity well

Re:so how many people will have to die before safe

[ColdWetDog]

All that's really required is some basic standard that companies have to meet to avoid punitive lawsuits when someone does die.

Yeah. Something like regulations. Or maybe rules. Or a framework. By a governmental agency with appropriate jurisdiction.

Great idea!