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.
Do you want to learn something, are just looking for another dead horse to beat?
Do you really think the rest of Free Republic is ignorant of the nature of government and just needs you to straighten us out?
It just means that the bureaucrats now have control over who plays the game.
Check your assumptions. The bureaucrats have always had control over the game. The difference now is that the bureaucrats have to go on record as to when they will say yes. Before this, the answer was simply, "No, and don't bother asking."