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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