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FAA Space Tourism Guidelines Draft Published

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the bad-inflight-movies dept.

An anonymous reader writes "...All 123 pages of it. Public comment period runs thorough February 27th, so if you're thinking of joining the latest class of jet-setters, better get your opinions in now. The FAA mentions the possibility of incorporating the "no-fly" list of the TSA into security requirements for space travel."

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  1. PDF Warning by Big+Nothing · · Score: 2, Informative

    "All 123 pages of it"

    For those of you who haven't already tried clicking on that huge, bloated (4.4 MB) PDF, consider yourselves forewarned.

    --
    SIG: TAKE OFF EVERY 'CAPTAIN'!!
  2. Re:My one requirement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    You don't think that "joke" is funny because you don't understand the context. For once, that joke is especially relevant to the topic. Here is the original line from the Simpsons episode, "Homer in space". It happens after Homer releases a colony of ants into the spaceship.

    Kent: Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but,
                        uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft
                        has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master
                        race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this
                        vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men
                        or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no
                        stopping them; the ants will soon be here.
                        And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to
                        remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful
                        in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar
                        caves.

  3. DOT Docket Search Page by adenied · · Score: 2, Informative

    Also, if you want to see the DOT docket for this, go here:

    http://dms.dot.gov/search/searchFormSimple.cfm

    The docket number is FAA-2005-23449 but all you should enter in the search field is 23449. Right now there's only one comment. I don't know if the DOT has electronic commenting enabled like the FCC does.