Five Executive Orders To Unleash Markets in Space
Simple policy changes can unleash innovation, remove barriers, and secure U.S. dominance in the final frontier.
Simple policy changes can unleash innovation, remove barriers, and secure U.S. dominance in the final frontier.
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D–N.Y.) claims that airlines are engaging in discrimination and enabling price gouging by canceling flights to the Middle East without government permission.
The Federal Aviation Administration has called an unnecessary halt on launches following the Falcon 9 mishap on August 28.
New research and paternalistic legislators could threaten our last in-flight comfort.
The feds charged Alex Choi with “causing the placement of explosive or incendiary device on an aircraft” after he shot fireworks out of a helicopter into an empty desert.
The legislation is largely a status quo bill that doesn't take up longstanding calls to reform air traffic control, airport funding, and more.
The areas where you need FAA approval to fly a model plane or drone are surprisingly large.
The FAA imposes notoriously wide flight restrictions around stadiums. The consumer drone industry wants to change that.
With another “rapid unscheduled disassembly,” the second Starship test in November was a mixed success.
The private sector space company overcame red tape and government delays to get to launch day.
The world's largest union of pilots says this requirement is necessary for safety and not unduly burdensome, but its data are misleadingly cherry-picked.
“If you’re able to build a rocket faster than the government can regulate it, that’s upside down.”
American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and the largest union of pilots want the government to change regulations that allow a smaller competitor to operate.
Phantom thunderstorms scotch thousands of flights, because the FAA sucks.
If a proposal to let pilots do more of their training on flight simulators passes, supporters will have "blood on your hands," says Sen. Tammy Duckworth.
Staffing shortages and laughably out-of-date technology in the federal government's air traffic control system are leading to a lot more flight delays.
The FAA required SpaceX take 75 separate actions to mitigate the environmental impacts of launches from its Boca Chica, Texas, launch site. A new lawsuit says it's not enough.
Restrictions on baby carriers during takeoff and landing are based on a single study from 1994 that didn’t even study these types of devices.
In countries that privatized, there are fewer delays and costs are lower. But labor unions and the private plane lobby stand in the way.
The airline will either clean up its act or go out of business. Meanwhile, the government plods along.
Critics say the NOTAM system creates safety hazards by overloading pilots with hard to read and superfluous information while failing to alert them to real hazards.
Re-regulating the airline industry won’t help prevent massive service disruptions in the future.
The regulations that increase building costs on Earth will have the same effect in space.
He spent his government career thinking about space. Then he got to fly.
The federal government and police are finding new ways to use drones to invade privacy.
From SpaceX and Tesla to Uber and Lyft, many of the most successful companies thrived without the government's stamp of approval.
The company has agreed to purchase 15 supersonic airliners from Denver-based aerospace startup Boom.
The National Transportation Safety Board has confirmed that a costly terrain warning system lawmakers wanted to mandate in response to Bryant's death would have been a non-factor in the accident that killed him.
At the end of August, the FAA finally gave Amazon approval for its Prime Air drone delivery fleet.
America has been lagging behind other countries.
The Drone Integration and Zoning Act seeks to expand private property rights and give localities more say in airspace regulation.
"The safety of the American people and all people is our paramount concern," Trump said.
Farming out airport security and air traffic control would help to immunize air travel from the Congressional budget chaos.
Congress gives a nod to new technologies in renewing the aviation safety agency's legal authority, while punting on real reforms.
The agency decided that airline seat sizes don't have a discernible effect on passenger safety.
The FAA banned flight-sharing apps, but Sen. Mike Lee has introduced a bill to overturn that decision.
The Department of Transportation will experiment with expanding what commercial uses are allowed.
Regulators, for once, are pushing back.
Flight-sharing helped fill seats on small, private trips and cut costs. But regulators stopped it.
The Senate apparently wants to leave the current out-dated, needlessly expensive FAA system in place.
Dozens of countries have modernized successfully.
And believe it or not, his proposal isn't half bad.
Hobbyists freed from shackles of new FAA regulations.
Great accomplishment in the history of human flight, or the greatest accomplishment in the history of human flight?
We'll have to keep dreaming about the day the Tacocopter will forever change the way humans fulfill their cravings for Mexican food.
Is more oversight truly needed, or just more risk awareness?
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