On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 04:07:39 GMT, in a place far, far away,
h (Rand Simberg) made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

On 09 Oct 2003 03:10:33 GMT, in a place far, far away,
(GCHudson) made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

Let me be clear that I have no problem with informed consent as provided for in
(2) and (3) but (1) means the end of both the suborbital and orbital
spaceflight "participant" industry before it begins.

It may or may not. It depends on what "received training and met
medical or other standards specified in the license" means. That is,
what are the training and medical standards? I agree that there is a
danger that they could be overly stringent, but there's a potential
upside, in that it could be a means of implementing Pat Collins' and
Peter Diamandis' concept of "certified space traveler," which could
obviate the liability issues, if implemented properly. And I suspect
that that's the intent. The issue will be whether or not AST (or as
the legislation seems to require, a newly-resurrected OCST) does it
properly...

I've put up a blog post with a preliminary analysis of the proposed
legislation (and taken the liberty of incorporating David's
comments--I trust he'll tell me if that's a problem).

http://www.interglobal.org/weblog/ar...48.html#003148

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