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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.
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