Up, up, and away? Space is the place.(Citings)(Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004) From: Reason | Date: June 1, 2004| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2004 Reason Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

FORTY YEARS AFTER the Wright brothers' first flight, more than 1 million people had flown in airplanes. More than 40 years after Yuri Gagarin orbited the earth, barely 500 individuals have flown in space.

It turns out that federal regulations are stronger than gravity in holding back the commercial development of space launches. In the 1970s, for example, the Carter administration banned federal agencies from using private providers to place cargoes in space. In March, in an effort to reduce the regulatory barriers to private spaceflight, the House of Representatives passed ...

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