September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
...the US introduced into US domestic law (via the Commercial Space Law Amendments Act 2004 and the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act 2015) two distinct categories of personnel engaged in space tourism (and an additional third category): “crew...
31 January 2016
Rick Tumlinson Publishes Letter to the Washington Space Establishment
... D.C., the pro-frontier/pro-citizen U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015 is now law, including laying the groundwork for a space resources industry. A year from now at least two space resource companies will be flying experimental...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
...In 2015, the United States Congress passed the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act that explicitly allows US citizens to “engage in the commercial exploration and exploitation of space resources (including ... water and minerals)”. Luxembourg...
03 February 2016
Luxembourg announces plan to mine asteroids
... United States passed into law The U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, a bill that recognises the right of U.S. citizens to own asteroid resources they obtain and encourages the commercial exploration and utilisation of resources from...
16 March 2018
CSUN undergraduate published in Room, The Space Journal
... the point of view of the millennial generation, gave Perez the opportunity to write about the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, which she writes, “demonstrates a willingness by the U.S. government to allow innovation in the private sector...
