In a message dated 10/8/04 3:00:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> It seems the House-Senate conference committee on the Commercial Space > Launch Amendments Act of 2004 (HR 3752) has added wording that makes > it's passage unlikely. Even it's author, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Ca) > has decided to hold back the bill. The amended version adds the > phrase: "but the industry should be held to the highest standards of > safety when transporting humans." to the "space transportation is > inherently risky," line, making it extremely hard for any company to > meet the safety level of (say) commercial airlines at this stage in > the industry's development. XCOR's Greason said he feared such > language would put the "safety of the crew and the safety of the > passengers on the same footing as the safety of the uninvolved > public." > 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 who are orchestrating this continuation of the blockade of space which Congress/nasa has so admirably conducted by defunding every X-craft that showed promise for CATS, Cheap Access To Space. X-Cor was right in recommending the bad law be postponed til the next session and re-started without the impossible safety language. Allen Meece in Key West members.aol.com/beanstalkr/project/ _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
