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The FAA To Facilitate American Commercial Participation In the ESA Moon Village (examiner.com)
MarkWhittington writes: While NASA remains fixated on its Journey to Mars, quietly, the FAA is positioning itself as the lead United States Government agency for a return to the moon. According to a story in Space News, "FAA's Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) unanimously approved a recommendation that the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation begin discussions with ESA on ways American companies could participate in what's known as 'Moon Village.'" The "Moon Village" is a European concept for an international moon base where various countries and private entities would collocate habitats for mutual support and benefit.
From your back yard to the moon the FAA wants to stick it's finger in the pie. Are they going to start regulating mining and deep sea exploration next?
Will systemd work on the moon?
As long as they use comlocks, it's gonna be great!
Republican corporate welfare.
This is all because Obama and his enforcer at NASA, Charles Bolden, have made any discussion of the moon verboten.
So now the FAA has to do what NASA should be doing. It's all because people seem to think we have to go to Mars or the Moon, but not both.
WE NEED TO COLONIZE BOTH THESE BODIES FOR THE WELFARE OF OUR RACE!
Thanks Obama!
I don't think that they do anymore- they don't dump the black water tanks at altitude anymore, so no more Joe-Dirt-esque frozen excrement balls bombing the planet anymore.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
When you see government agencies competing with each other, you know, you have too many of them.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
needs its idiot, and Space Nutters won't have a problem with doing that!!!
I sure hope pot is legal there!
JK. (no I'm not.)
Forget it. I'll build my own, with blackjack and hookers.
Have gnu, will travel.
Perhaps they will fly there via one of them thar newly registered drones they have a list of..
The Moon Village is simply name coined by newly minted ESA Director-General Johann-Dietrich Woerner. He has selected this as his stretch goal as something he has discussed prior to become the head of the agency. It is in the *concept* stage right now. As of yet, there are no partners, no money, no plan, etc. It also doesn't yet have the actual ESA as backer as he made this whole thing simply in a speech at the 31st Space Symposium in Colorado Springs in April.
The concept he was pitching was a manned base on the far side of the moon which should have opportunities for astronomy and planetary science, learning resource management.
Some of NASA administrator Charles Bolden' comments on this so called "Moon Village"...
“The US does not have to be the country that says, ‘We’re going, follow us,’” he said. “We’re all going back to the surface of the Moon. But, it’s just that the United States has no intention of leading that effort. We will support and be along with anybody that goes.”
“It will be critical for industry, both in the United States and elsewhere, but most importantly for our international partners to finally step up” and take the lead on lunar landing plans, he said. “Unfortunately, nobody’s stepped up yet.”
The FAA seem to be simply just trying to grab some turf in the commercial angle of this, but there's nothing really to grab yet.
I know a few politicians who belong on the Moon. Can we get a kickstarter going to send them there?
they would'nt let Any american company be involved to mininise the amount of shit legislation you government would attempt to force on them (security - all your data belongs to us , commerce etc).