#FAA: The regulators in space. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 5 October 2023
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#FAA: The regulators in space. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/psyche-engineers-discover-and-fix-a-major-thruster-problem-only-two-weeks-before-launch/
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| 0:26.7 | all the rest. Fixter. Ben, you're back on track. |
| 0:35.1 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John. That's with my colleague Bob Zimmerman. He keeps the |
| 0:39.2 | website behind the black from the surface of the planet Earth. We're going to Washington, DC. Bob? |
| 0:46.5 | Yeah, John. I know this is this is this is I go I go glazing stuff, but it's important |
| 0:53.2 | because it tells us something about what the future might hold for space and commercial space. |
| 0:58.3 | When Congress passed its 45-day stopgack budget continuum resolution the other day, |
| 1:03.5 | it included within it a three-month extension of the regulatory quote learning period, |
| 1:09.8 | unquote, that was first put in when Congress passed in 2004 the Commercial Space Amendment Act. |
| 1:17.4 | And this learning period was intended to give the new commercial man the suborbital tourism |
| 1:25.7 | industry a period of time in which to figure out how to do things. It's an experimental |
| 1:31.4 | high-tech engineering and if you have not done it before you need a lot of freedom to |
| 1:35.6 | experiment and make mistakes. And so heavy safety regulation was suspended on this industry |
| 1:42.2 | initially for the first seven years and then extended another seven years and then another |
| 1:46.6 | seven years and now this extension gives them another three months. And so yes, isn't that great? |
| 1:52.1 | The Commercial Space at least has three more months and maybe longer they'll extend it again |
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