A nearly 20-year ban on human spaceflight regulations is set to expire

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From Ars Technica:
"In 2004, Congress passed a law that established a moratorium on federal safety regulations for commercial astronauts and space tourists riding to space on new privately owned rockets and spacecraft. The idea was to allow time for new space companies to establish themselves before falling under the burden of regulations, an eventuality that spaceflight startups argued could impede the industry's development."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/a ... to-expire/

I didn't know about this ban on regulations for private space companies - to extend or not to extend is an interesting debate.

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