Scoring a bit of web traffic, are we?
Here’s the whole thing:
Congress in Outer Space. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
The House yesterday passed a new law to reform the commercial space licensing rules.
Essentially, the bill shifts a majority of commercial space regulation to the Department of Commerce, and matches somewhat closely the recommendations being put forth by the Trump administration.
The bill appears to be almost identical to the version I analyzed in great detail in an op-ed for The Federalist last year. It has the same positives and negatives. While it definitely aims at simplifying the licensing process for space (abolishing such agencies as NOAA’s Office of Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs that recently tried to claim it had the right to license all photograph of Earth from space.), it does not appear to completely make Commerce that “one-stop shop” for all licensing, allowing the FAA and FCC to retain their space licensing responsibilities. Moreover, it appears, as I noted in my op-ed, to avoid the more essential legal problems, such as the Outer Space Treaty, that hamper private space today and will hamper private space even more in the future.
Regardless, it does appear that the turf war over licensing between Commerce and the FAA is over. Though the law still must get through the Senate, it does appear that Commerce has mostly won. It will get the majority of this bureaucratic bauble. What that bureaucracy will do with it, however, is the real question.
Nope, you’re pointing to an April 25th Zimmerman Blog-post, that I never posted here at FR.
I pointed today, to The John Batchelor Show audio podcast, from WABC-NY.
You are the only one “driving traffic” to Zimmerman’s blog today, not me. (sorry)
Jeez dude— I thought we reached an accord, but your behavior is that of a vicious, spiteful, little troll.