The FAA grounded SpaceX’s Starship rocket today after it exploded minutes into lift off on its first test flight and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. The company, headed by Elon Musk, had planned to send the 400-foot rocket around the globe.
, saying “Every great achievement throughout history has demanded some level of calculated risk, because with great risk comes great reward. Looking forward to all that SpaceX learns, to the next flight test—and beyond.”
When asked if it’s time for lawmakers to push for more commercial spaceflight regulation, House Transportation Aviation Subcommittee Chair, speaking to POLITICO on Capitol Hill, said he doesn’t want to do “anything that impedes the progress of innovation for commercial space.” “But obviously, you got that balance with safety. And so we’re gonna continue working with NTSB,” Graves said.
SpaceX’s Starship is designed to be a fully reusable space vehicle that can carry both crew and cargo “to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond,”, chair of the Senate Commerce Aviation Subcommittee, said lawmakers need to clarify which agency will be in charge of regulating the industry as “space tourism steps up.”
“We have to decide who’s going to regulate that type of travel. Is it going to be the FAA or is it going to be NASA — NASA is not a regulating agency the way FAA is — coming up with the rules and policies of how we conduct both commercial passenger and commercial freight travel?” Duckworth said."...
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