Slashdot Mirror
NASA and FAA Team To Streamline, Regulate Commercial Space Access
coondoggie writes "The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and NASA today said they signed an agreement to coordinate standards for commercial space travel of government and non-government astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit and the International Space Station (ISS). The main goals of the agreement are to establish a framework for the emerging commercial US space industry to help streamline requirements and multiple sets of standards and ultimately to regulate public and crew safety."
to prevent pictures of Cheneys house posted on the internet, taken from space.
...that joint-bureaucracy works...
The intelligence of a group can be determined by finding the IQ of the least intelligent member of the group, and dividing that number by the total people in the group.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Kill it in the crib, before it makes us irrelevant!
What you did there. I seened it.
Romney is not going to win.
Already on the "Do Not Orbit" list :(
Standard pre-flight announcement:
"Fasten your seat belts, stow your tray tables, put your seat backs upright, & have your barf bags open & ready!"
Enjoy the reign of Romney. Oh, I pity you Americans. He's a pretty smooth liar already, just wait until he gets the backing of the White House staff veterans and you will see an era that you would not even dream about under Bush.
Can I light a sig ?
Why not assign the management of the nation's airspace to the Secretary of the Interior.
Um... because the nation's airspace is outside?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
It won't be any fun until the TSA joins the party
Great, So the US government is going to regulate space travel, which will in turn inherently give other nations who do not put regulations on spaceflight a decisive advantage. The rules of spaceflight already have a regulation system; Physics. Considering that Spacex, and other companies are going to have to follow regulations set by their customers, I really don't understand how this will improve anything. Does NASA get a bigger budget to oversee these operations? What is the taxpayer getting for this?
Question:? How do we kill off this emerging commercial space flight industry
Answer: "...establish a framework for the emerging commercial US space industry to help streamline requirements and multiple sets of standards and ultimately to regulate public and crew safety."
>implying RMoney has a chance in hell
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
This was foretold. "The Man Who Sold The Moon", Robert A. Heinlein
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
FX:
[plane engine starting, a few misfires, backfires. It stalls, followed by lots of bits falling off]
Seagoon:
Well, what shall we build now?
McChisholm:
Ah, M-mister Seagoon! Did you no notice? A moment before it fell to bits, it rose seven feet off the ground!
Seagoon:
Correction, five feet. Two of those feet were mine!
McChisholm:
If, if you ask me, sir, we've invented the hairyplane.
FX:
[phone rings, receiver being picked up]
Seagoon:
Hello?
Grytpype-Thynne:
[speaking over telephone] I hear you've invented the aeroplane.
Seagoon:
Who's this speaking?
Grytpype-Thynne:
The Air Ministry.
The Goon Show
Series 7, Episode 15
First broadcast on January 10, 1957. Script by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
Leave it the fuck alone, government.
I can't wait until those two TLAs get involved - there goes space flight! Buried under a mountain of bureaucratic nonsense so deep, no rocket will be able to get off the ground!
Yes, Mr Armstrong, please put the shoes on the bin, remove your space suit, put them it on the bin, the briefcase like life support unit you are carrying, please unplug it and place it on the conveyor for x-rays, and please stand here and hold your hands over your heads please. No Mr Armstrong, oxygen cylinders are prohibited. The coolant in the life support unit is more than 3.5 fluid oz, so we have to empty it and dump it. Have a nice orbit, Mr Armstrong. Next.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
The main goal of the agreement is to establish barriers to entry for the emerging commercial US space industry to help choose winners and losers and ultimately to ensure that only the politically well connected get a leg up on others and maintain that dominance. FIFY
I'm about 99% sure that thus far there have never been 2 spacecraft vehicles in the "air" at the same time in all of human history. But hey, go decide who has the right of way at a cosmic 4 way stop lol. Okay, it probably focuses more on realistic stuff like leaving behind space junk but still, kinda funny.
The FAA only has legal authority to regulate air travel operations up to and including 60,000 feet. Even if NASA wanted to delegate low Earth orbit activities to the FAA, the FAA still couldn't do it, because it lacks the authority.
Oh, I guess you haven't heard. I was under the impression that everyone had heard.
FAA and NASA