The Environmental Impact Of Licensing New Space Vehicles Washington - Oct 22, 2003 The United States Federal Aviation Administration is currently evaluating four vehicle designs within its Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) process. This process is currently at the Public Scoping stage and the time period for this has been extended to October 31, 2003. The vehicle types under evaluation are grouped based on their proposed launch and landing operations. The launch operations consist of two types, horizontal and vertical launch. The FAA prepared a PEIS for Licensing Launches in 2001 which addressed the impacts of vertically launched vehicles and...