#Preview: #SpecialEdition: Imagining the regulatory state for private space stations. Rand Simberg, author, "Safe Is Not an Option."
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🗓️ 19 May 2023
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#Preview: #SpecialEdition: Imagining the regulatory state for private space stations. Rand Simberg, author, "Safe Is Not an Option."
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| 0:00.0 | It starts with an instinct to take your next step into simulating spaces where |
| 0:10.0 | truth is pursued. It starts with every first chord and every last take. So look |
| 0:19.2 | closer and cover your future. The path to purposeful careers starts with city. |
| 0:25.4 | It starts with you. |
| 0:30.5 | This is John Bachelors. In conversation with my colleague, Rand Simberg, a space |
| 0:35.5 | analyst, author of, |
| 0:37.4 | Safe is not an option. We're looking at the future of space stations in |
| 0:41.9 | Earth orbit, private space stations, hotels, experimental stations, visits by |
| 0:47.9 | well-to-do people, many of them, all being built or proposed now, and Rand reflects |
| 0:54.4 | on the advantages of regulatory issues that are coming up building codes, etc. |
| 0:59.9 | Also the idea where there will be will they cooperate with each other. Here's |
| 1:05.4 | Rand Simberg. I'm actually talking to a number of them about |
| 1:09.9 | regulatory issues and they all recognize that they're going to need some kind of |
| 1:14.7 | building codes up there and those have to be industry developed so it's not |
| 1:18.4 | going to be each one for himself. We need to actually coordinate that, |
| 1:21.6 | probably including with the Department of Commerce and the National Institute |
| 1:25.6 | of Standards and Technology. So there are discussions to that degree. |
| 1:30.6 | How do we build an industry? I don't know if there are discussions in terms of |
| 1:35.1 | how they might interact with each other commercially or otherwise. It would make |
| 1:40.8 | sense to me if they're all going to be in that ISS orbit and that makes sense |
| 1:46.4 | to put them in that orbit for now, that they want to stay in the same orbit |
| 1:50.6 | plane so they can easily get from one to another. So if there's an emergency on |
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