Government doesn't solve problems...
Oct. 7th, 2004 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThe engines of SpaceShipOne have hardly cooled down before Congressional types started to amend HR 3752 to make sure that -- under the guise of placing crew and passenger safety on an equal footing with that of the uninvolved public -- development of a civilian space transportation industry comes to a screeching halt in the US.
Details are here.
The long explanation is this: To assure the proposed level of passenger safety, no operator could carry passengers until after several tens of thousands of consecutive safe missions were flown. To apply the same standard to the crew means you'd require 30,000-plus flights of an experimental vehicle with no harm resulting to the crew. In effect, say critics, the bill would prohibit flight testing of manned space vehicles and stop all manned private space flight in the United States.
What a bunch of maroons. At least Rohrabacher did the right thing and decided to hold back the bill.
Cheers...
Details are here.
The long explanation is this: To assure the proposed level of passenger safety, no operator could carry passengers until after several tens of thousands of consecutive safe missions were flown. To apply the same standard to the crew means you'd require 30,000-plus flights of an experimental vehicle with no harm resulting to the crew. In effect, say critics, the bill would prohibit flight testing of manned space vehicles and stop all manned private space flight in the United States.
What a bunch of maroons. At least Rohrabacher did the right thing and decided to hold back the bill.
Cheers...
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Date: 2004-10-08 04:41 am (UTC)