There is already a regulatory structure, and has been for years. I’ve never heard an investor say he was sitting on the sidelines until the government started regulating human spaceflight safety.

Speaking of phony concerns, the promulgation of commercial manned space safety regulations will accelerate, not hinder, manned commercial spaceflight. The existence of a regulatory structure will enable financial participation of more entities, growing the available capital pool ten-fold. Just look at the relationship between the insurers, business, and government to see the parallels. You will soon hear the business community saying that if indemnification is not extended, then they will have to exit the business due to its ultra hazardous nature.

This has nothing to do with third-party safety.

Are you completely incapable of posting anything either informed, or intelligent?

14 people were unnecessarily killed on the Shuttle in accidents that could have been avoided, but they still allowed that to fly for decades. The commercial crew vehicles will at least not be using interminable RSRMs, or have heat-shields damageable by falling debris and will have an escape system. This will be an order of magnitude safer than the Shuttle.

Phoney concerns over “public safety” are just being used by people like AMW as a way of crushing commercial crew out of spite, not because they give a damn. It actually succeeding is a threat to people who support super expensive centralized statist approaches to spaceflight, such as SLS. This system will be less safe relatively and carries on it the energy content equivalent of a small nuclear weapon.

Commercial crew vehicles are all EELV class launchers that don’t even launch over land. The other vehicles are suborbital and are already highly regulated for performing flights over a 1000 feet.

What they can’t do is write regulation without data. Or would you rather join other people, and cry over spilled milk?

Do us all a favor, and actually read the laws and understand what they mean.

“Isn’t it kind of obvious that we can’t have internet adventurers…”

Are you advocating laws singling out one particular company? In other words, it’s OK if ULA blows up a rocket but not anyone else?

“Some regulation is in order.”

You keep claiming to be a conservative, but when you say stuff like this I don’t think they will let you into their treehouse…