Topic summary
Commercial spacecraft
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Private spaceflight.
American deregulation
In 2004, the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004 required that NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration deregulate private space flight. The 2004 Act also specified a "learning period" which restricted the ability of the FAA to enact regulations regarding the safety of people who might actually fly on commercial spacecraft through 2012, ostensibly because spaceflight participants would share the risk of flight through informed consent procedures of human spaceflight risks, while requiring the launch provider to be legally liable for potential losses to uninvolved persons and structures.