conversation with Bob Zimmerman about the Department of Commerce doing the right thing about space travel.

It is lightning the regulations about using spaceports outside the territory of the United States, making it easier for private business

in competition with other private business to find a launch facility that is cheap and

ready to shoot. This is an excellent move and

is often no patients whatsoever with the federal government as it's out of date.

Well this time it's out of date. Well this time it's made a conclusion that is

positive for space, especially for commercial space. Wherever you can get the

best deal, it's no longer going to be a tangle, an obstacle

course, a wall to using other countries, such as Oman with its new space port. Bob Zimmerman on the

Commerce Department, even the State Department, even the government getting it

right. More of this later. It is. It is a deregulation story and it's an interesting one.

Commerce Department has announced that it is issuing three new rulings that will ease regulations and licensing procedures to allow American

rocket and satellite companies to launch for international space ports.

And the big news was it was specifically easing the regulations, the State Department of Regulations,

on launching from spaceports in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, all of which have proposed spaceports.

In the past, if you want to put a satellite on another company's

raw, another nation's rocket, you had to go through very strict State Department rules,

made it almost impossible.

If you want to launch a rocket from one of these countries, you had to go through these serious

State Department rules and it was made

it almost possible. This regulation change now allows rocket companies and satellite

companies to launch on those spaceports and it'll help those spaceports but it'll also help American

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