7 thoughts on “Should The FAA Regulate All Space Activities?”
What did FAA do about Chinese spy balloons?
The answer to any question that starts “Should the government (or any part of it” do anything is almost always NO!
My pedant gene is going to express itself.
FAA regulates aviation and aviation accessible altitudes for aviation behavior over the U.S. .
Rocket flight over the U.S. while within aviation-like parts of the atmosphere is fair game.
Outside those envelopes their regulatory reach is zero.
Once in space, private enterprise assets can be declared Independent private property sovereign only to their owner.
Form a Government, make law that grants citizenship to owners, and then grant owners Diplomatic Immunity.
Taxed by no Earth government entity.
I would hide earth-side kids to minimize governmental attempts at forceful coercion.
Should the US Coast Guard regulate pool air mattress floats in Hollywood swimming pools — after all it is a “manned watercraft in a body of water”? When you say ALL you quickly become absurd …absurd in a bureaucratic sort of way.
Isn’t the USCG responsible for interdicting water-borne drug smugglers? Maybe you’ve got the right idea!
The 1967 OST does not require nations to regulate the space activities of their nationals, it only makes them responsible for the behavior of their nationals in space. So if an American steals a Chinese rover on the Moon the Chinese get to hold the Untied States government responsible.
But even more important, under the OST the only consequences are that other OST signatories must negotiate a settlement with a nation if they stray outside of the accepted guidelines as the Kosmos 954 incident showed. That means all the Chinese would be able to do is demand that the American government make its nationals give back the rover or pay for it.
What did FAA do about Chinese spy balloons?
The answer to any question that starts “Should the government (or any part of it” do anything is almost always NO!
My pedant gene is going to express itself.
FAA regulates aviation and aviation accessible altitudes for aviation behavior over the U.S. .
Rocket flight over the U.S. while within aviation-like parts of the atmosphere is fair game.
Outside those envelopes their regulatory reach is zero.
Once in space, private enterprise assets can be declared Independent private property sovereign only to their owner.
Form a Government, make law that grants citizenship to owners, and then grant owners Diplomatic Immunity.
Taxed by no Earth government entity.
I would hide earth-side kids to minimize governmental attempts at forceful coercion.
Should the US Coast Guard regulate pool air mattress floats in Hollywood swimming pools — after all it is a “manned watercraft in a body of water”? When you say ALL you quickly become absurd …absurd in a bureaucratic sort of way.
Isn’t the USCG responsible for interdicting water-borne drug smugglers? Maybe you’ve got the right idea!
The 1967 OST does not require nations to regulate the space activities of their nationals, it only makes them responsible for the behavior of their nationals in space. So if an American steals a Chinese rover on the Moon the Chinese get to hold the Untied States government responsible.
But even more important, under the OST the only consequences are that other OST signatories must negotiate a settlement with a nation if they stray outside of the accepted guidelines as the Kosmos 954 incident showed. That means all the Chinese would be able to do is demand that the American government make its nationals give back the rover or pay for it.
This might cover it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_piracy_law
Since this includes air piracy, space piracy is a simple extension of definition.