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comstar03

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From: Australia

Registered: 2004-07-19

Posts: 329

Re: Space Activity Licensing >>>> - Controlling the Commercial Space Race

Well,

I was reading the International Space Law and the Laws of the United States (Space Transportation - FAA Section ) and the Space Activities Act 1998 within Australia.

Both Laws are similar, before you can go into space you require a license to go into space. This license can have any requirements / clauses attached to it , thus can limit rights to build into space, what you can do in space and even override rights of discover / invention because depends on the license that your government attached if you don't go along then they can refuse you a license.

In Australia , it goes further from civil penalties, if you launch ( inside or outside Australia ) a unlincesed craft then you (Australian National) can go to jail for up to 10 years.  And the FAA Laws in USA also add National Security and Foreign Policy Interests. That would allow they to justify anywhere in the world.

Don't think you can just build a spacecraft and launch into space from anywhere our countries laws will get you.

Think on those enlighten thoughts, as you go and read these documents

United States Space Regulations

http://ast.faa.gov]http://ast.faa.gov /

Australian Space Regulations

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/ … aa1998167/

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SpaceNut

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From: New Hampshire

Registered: 2004-07-22

Posts: 29,417

Re: Space Activity Licensing >>>> - Controlling the Commercial Space Race

Is there any real reason to control a space race by private companies so closely if launch site are chosen for safety. This also should include re-entry to landing as well.

So long as some official means are use to safe guard against ramming into planes on launch or on return who care what other risk these companies will take. It is there responsiblity to police those issues.

SpaceNut

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From: New Hampshire

Registered: 2004-07-22

Posts: 29,417

Re: Space Activity Licensing >>>> - Controlling the Commercial Space Race

Started looking at the old topics. Office of Commercial Space Transportation, Commercial Space Transportation Industry

How is it that we are able to enjoy live national or worldwide television and radio broadcasts? Make international telephone calls? Use high-speed Internet and nationwide paging services? Receive weather forecasts? Manage natural resource use? Respond to emergencies and disasters? Pay by credit card at a retail store? Satellite technology is the short answer. But how do those satellites make it into space? This is the function of commercial space transportation.

Thirty years ago there was no commercial space transportation industry. By 2009, U.S. commercial space transportation and the services and industries it enables accounted for more than $208 billion in economic activity. Over one million people were employed as a result of these activities. This level is likely to grow in the future as new applications dependent on commercial space transportation emerge.

We take so much for granted that Space makes possible and going to Mars will be no different with regards to the need for the crew to keep a resembelance of life as it is here in Earth....