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Offline Elderberry

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Op-ed | The FAA and SpaceX
« on: February 05, 2021, 11:10:59 pm »
Space News by Steve Blank — February 5, 2021

Regardless of the antics of its CEO, SpaceX and others innovating with speed and urgency need to operate with different rules.

Fifty years ago, Boeing was the gold standard for aviation and aerospace engineering excellence. And the FAA led the world in setting aircraft and airspace safety standards. No longer.

Today, the fate of the SpaceX Starship offers an example of how government oversight agencies can stifle innovation when they are unable to distinguish between innovation and execution and throw roadblocks in front of the single company that has transformed access to space.

In delaying test launches of the SpaceX Starship, the FAA desired a lengthy investigatory period that created unnecessary roadblocks for a company that for better or worse now wears the mantle of the U.S. national champion for access to space.

While at first glance the FAA/SpaceX dust-up over their rapid rocket development might be looked at as a rich entrepreneur breaking the rules, and a federal agency trying to keep the public safe, it is actually an example of a government organization — the FAA — unable to distinguish between innovation and execution.   

More: https://spacenews.com/op-ed-the-faa-and-spacex/
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Re: Op-ed | The FAA and SpaceX
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2021, 12:55:17 am »
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Someone — the White House, the National Security Council — needs to intervene and relieve the FAA of oversight of innovation and experimental programs. And have them focus on repairing their basic functions of ensuring safe commercial aircraft and airspace. 

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Re: Op-ed | The FAA and SpaceX
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2021, 01:24:29 am »
This is more about Musk not obeying The Party than about any petty squabble about a space vehicle.

Musk has gotten a bit uppity of late, and the Failed People's Republic of California is unhappy that Musk is threatening to move his golf-cart company out of CA to Texas.

Remember when the Bull Dyke Baby-Killing Jello started to threaten Microsoft with anti-trust charges?   The girl-friend of Bill Clinton's wife dropped those charges once Gates decided to finance any and every popular Rodent cause they could come up with, didn't they?

Musk is another billionaire, one even more sensitive to government interference, the Rodents are forcing into line.

And it's not like NASA wouldn't like to resume full control of the entirety of US space-access technology.
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