Suborbital Rocketeers Ask FAA For Fair Rocketry Rules

HobbySpacer writes "John Carmack, Dennis Tito, Eric Anderson of Space Adventures, Brian Chase of the National Space Society and other notables in the world of rocketry and space activism issued a call today for the FAA to cut the regulatory tangle that threatens to hold a nascent fleet of suborbital space vehicles firmly on the ground. The FAA needs to make it clear that these rocket vehicles fall under the jurisdiction of its own Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) and not let intra-agency bureaucratic squabbles over control and power stall the development of this promising new industry."

Comments

This is just not going to happen.

[AugstWest]

Not while John Ashcroft has any sort of power. The man's paranoia (right or wrong, sometimes both) knows no bounds.

Can you honestly imagine rules being loosened right now to allow for rockets/missiles being launched in the US under any circumstances while they are *not* under strict government control?

I heard something about them even trying to put a stop to the small-time (Estes) rocketry.

You and your iodine pills

[Baldrson]

You're a funny guy. Here's another joke. Be sure to move to someplace like Manhattan or west LA. If you find yourself looking for iodine pills, check yourself into the nearest county mental health facility quick before you find yourself moving to a rural area or exhibiting other signs of paranoid dementia.