Why Congress Is Making Commercial Space Travel Companies Nervous
A law that puts a moratorium on federal safety regulations for commercial astronauts and space tourists will expire soon if Congress doesn't renew it.
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A law that puts a moratorium on federal safety regulations for commercial astronauts and space tourists will expire soon if Congress doesn't renew it.
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XCOR Aerospace recently announced that the XCOR Lynx® Mark I cockpit has been delivered. The cockpit is the principle major subassembly XCOR needs to begin assembly of the Lynx suborbital space plane. AdamWorks engineers, along with XCOR engineers, performed several successful pressure tests before it was packed and shipped to XCOR. The space plane vehicle integration will commence immediately with the first test flight scheduled to take off by the end of this year. “The successful pressure testing of the Lynx cockpit and its delivery is a major milestone for us,” said XCOR Founder and C...
Head of Spacecraft Business Unit and Board Director James C Bennett is an internationally recognized space technology and space commercialization policy veteran. In recent years, he consulted on commercial space flight and space applications, as well as project development in space and other high technology enterprises. His notable achievements include: Being recognized as a Space Fellow with The Economic Policy Center, London. Co-founding two private launch ventures (Starstruck, Inc. and the American Rocket Company (AMROC)) that revived hybrid rocket propulsion technology now used in Vir...