Art Dula speaking at the Space Investment Summit in Manhattan today called for Congress to reform the Outer Space Treaty to cap the unlimited liability that signatory countries have for their nationals’ space accidents. “They don’t have this for oil tankers or airplanes.”

[Update by Rand Simberg]

One of the reasons they don’t have it for airplanes is the Warsaw Convention. Did he propose extending that to space?

[Update by Sam Dinkin]

He proposed getting an act of Congress passed to unilaterally limit the US federal government liability.