It adds a ton of respectibility to something that has always been considered to be hardly more than a big, messy bomb.
One of the big hurdles to commercial spaceflight the idea that it is not accomplished by a transportation system, but rather by a more or less controlled explosion.
Getting to the point of being regulated by the FAA is a huge step in loosening the regulations, and has been a long time coming. It is a huge step forward that had to wait, among other things, for a republican government to happen.
How can you use the terms "respectibility" [sic] and "government" in the same thesis? Nothing the government has EVER done has been efficient or "respectable," at least not in the commercial sense of the word.
One of the big hurdles to commercial spaceflight the idea that it is not accomplished by a transportation system, but rather by a more or less controlled explosion.
Who has this notion? If a rocket is a "controlled explosion," then jet flight isn't much better. TO many people, it is even more mysterious than rockets. And in any case, how does the FAA change any of that perception? It isn't as though their involvement means that rocket flight is now somehow safer or has advanced in technology. It just means that the bureaucrats now have control over who plays the game.