Re: Bezos' Blue Origin revealed!
- From: "columbiaaccidentinvestigation" <columbiaaccidentinvestigation@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 6 Jan 2007 09:45:35 -0800
On Jan 6, 9:06 am, simberg.interglo...@xxxxxxxxx (Rand Simberg) wrote:
On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 10:52:51 -0600, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery <flan...@xxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:
I never said that the Futron report said there wasn't a space tourist
industry, it said there _was_ a space tourist industry.
What I was concerned about was Futron's impartiality in regards to this
report, and why it generated the report in the first place.
It generated it because it got a contract from that famous booster of
space tourism, NASA, to do so.
So when I wrote that the report was done at the request of a spaceSpace Society, or the Space Frontier Foundation, or some other
advocacy group....NASA isn't a space advocacy group?No, it's not. Most people would take that phrase to mean the National
non-profit.
Funny, yah could have fooled meNot hard to do that. Even Chomko seems to do so, occasionally.
I think it's even in their charter.
Yup, look here:http://www.spaceprojects.com/charter/
DECLARATION OF POLICY AND PURPOSE
Sec. 102.
"(c) The Congress declares that the general welfare of the United Statesthere'd be few left.
requires that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (as
established by title II of this Act) seek and encourage, to the maximum
extent possible, the fullest commercial use of space."If government agencies ever got in trouble for ignoring their charter,
And since space tourism is obviously manned spaceflight, anything thattourism." They held a workshop on the subject in the nineties, due to
promotes manned spaceflight is in NASA's self interest, in that if
public interest in it ever dwindles away, a huge chunk of NASA's budget
also dwindles away.Pat, for many years, NASA refused to even use the phrase "space
great pressure, and they refused to publish the results on the NASA
web site. Public space travel is a huge threat to their manned
spaceflight program, because once people see that it doesn't have to
cost as much as the NASA Way, they'll quickly lose support for
boondoggles like Orion.
Here is a link, and the executive summary from a Study of the Liability
Risk-Sharing Regime in the United States for Commercial Space
Transportation published in august 2006.
http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/reports_studies/media/Risk_Study(final).pdf
Study of the Liability Risk-Sharing Regime in the United States for
Commercial Space
Transportation
1 August 2006
Prepared by J. A. VEDDA
Center for Space Policy and Strategy National Space Systems Engineering
Prepared for
VOLPE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS CENTER
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Cambridge, MA 02142
Contract No. DTRT57-05-D-30103, Tasks 3 & 8
Page ix
"Executive Summary
The Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-492)
mandated a study of the U.S. government's risk sharing of third-party
liability for commercial space launch providers licensed by the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA). This risk-sharing regime, as described
in Title 49, section 70113 of the U.S. Code, was the subject of a
previous congressionally directed report issued in April 2002 by the
Department of Transportation (DOT) titled "Liability Risk-Sharing
Regime for U.S. Commercial Space Transportation: Study and Analysis"
(hereafter referred to as DOT/FAA 2002). The current study updates this
report for congressional decision-makers who are considering the next
steps beyond the current risk-sharing statute, which expires at the end
of 2009.
Specifically, this report provides the following:
· An objective assessment of methods by which the current liability
risk-sharing regime could be eliminated or modified, including
alternative steps needed to maintain a viable and internationally
competitive U.S. commercial space transportation industry.
· An evaluation of the direct and indirect impacts that elimination
or modification of the regime would have on U.S. competitiveness in the
world launch market, and on U.S. assured access to · Examination of
liability risk-sharing in other nations with commercial space launch
capabilities, including comparisons to the current liability
risk-sharing regime in the U.S.
Approach
For purposes of this study, U.S. commercial space launches are defined
as those licensed by the FAA and conducted by a competitively selected
private-sector launch provider. A large percentage of the world's
annual space launches involve payloads that are captives of a
particular nation's or region's launch vehicles (nearly 70% in
2005),1 and therefore are not included in this discussion. To gather a
wide perspective on the influence of insurance issues on the future of
commercial space transportation, this study 1) conducted interviews
with representatives of the commercial space transportation and
insurance industries, and 2) collected information from studies,
reports, and forecasts of industry advisory groups, trade associations,
academic research, and the trade press, including reports and
peer-reviewed research of other industries in which government
ndemnification has played a role, such as the commercial nuclear power
industry.
The current third-party liability indemnification regime remains in
force until the end of 2009. As a result, this study's analysis
considers not only current circumstances but also the business
environment that the U.S. launch industry may face in the next decade.
Many factors that would affect a decision on the future of government
indemnification could change:
· International competition could continue to increase.
· The number and characteristics of domestic launch providers could
change significantly.
· Domestic launch providers could expand their operations through new
technologies (e.g.,reusable launch vehicles), new markets (e.g., space
tourism), or new government policies (e.g., loosening of export
controls, "buy American" laws, or privatization of International
Space Station operations).
· A major launch accident or Katrina-like natural disaster could
disrupt the liability insurance
market."
tom
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