Legislators exploring ways to regulate space tourism
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While entrepreneurs explore how to put ordinary folks into space, federal officials are pondering how to regulate the emerging commercial space industry.
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New Mexico's legislature expands its jurisdiction, mulling whether to return the slighted celestial body to its planetary status every time it passes overhead. By Robert Lemos.
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Moon or Mars, or both? Economic incentives of politcal? And who will lead the way?
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Aspiring space tourists got some proposed guidelines on Thursday from the U.S. government, including advice to get a physical exam before traveling and to accept the risks involved by signing a form.
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Marion C. Blakey, administrator of commercial space transportation for the Federal Aviation Administration, speaks with reporters following a briefing at the XCOR hangar at Mojave, Calif.
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Sir Richard Branson announces that he has signed an agreement to develop the world&#39;s first privately funded space travel. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA.
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Also: Congress OKs private spaceflight bill. [News.com Extra]
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NASA is studying the potential of future cooperation with the suborbital tourism firm Virgin Galactic on a variety of fronts, agency officials announced Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES -- The historic suborbital flights of SpaceShipOne have ignited interest in space tourism, but the budding industry and federal regulators must still resolve questions ranging from ensuring the safety of people on the ground to informing
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A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Thursday renewed an effort to empower the government to regulate cigarettes as a drug, winning praise from anti-smoking advocates.
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Group demonstrates possible solutions, but lawmakers also need to act.
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A commercial spaceliner and a Woodstock-like space festival are the next planned steps in what has been called a &quot;personal space flight revolution.
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China is drafting laws governing outer space, state media on Monday quoted the country's first astronaut as saying at a time when Beijing's space drive is drawing growing international concern.
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By Erica Werner THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  WASHINGTON -- Thrill-seekers looking to blast into space would need to be informed in writing of serious risks -- including death - - and promise not to sue the government under the first-ever rules for commercial space travel.
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New York Gov. George Pataki and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger are pressing Congress to protect key parts of the Clean Air Act as lawmakers and the Bush administration seek to change the law.
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Maryland lawmakers began to consider a proposal yesterday for one of the nation's most ambitious sets of controls on carbon dioxide emissions, as the state seeks to be a leader in the effort to curb the gases that contribute to global warming.
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Buck Rogers visits Jacksonville? Not exactly.  But the quest for a spaceport at Cecil Field, where paying passengers would be launched into sub-orbit, is visionary - and probably a good investment in the city.  Space tourism is more than just a vague concept.