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NASA administrator Bill Nelson tells FOX Business exclusively that the organization is working to establish rules for commercial space travel. Hillary Vaughn with more.
With billionaire Jeff Bezos weeks away from taking off in his own Blue Origin rocket, along with his brother Mark and a mysterious passenger who paid $28 million to be aboard, NASA has a message: space won’t be the wild west. for billionaires or anyone else who wants to run off.
“I’ll keep an eye on it, but they will have to undergo the same rigorous physical and psychological examination for any other professional astronaut,” NASA administrator Bill Nelson told FOX Business exclusively. “We want the crew already on the space station to be safe when they have visitors and you shouldn’t expect anything less.”
Nelson speaks from experience. In 1986, he became the first member of the United States House of Representatives to travel into space, serving as a Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia.
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While it’s unclear what exactly NASA will do to regulate space travel, it’s clear that some sort of oversight is under review. In Congress, lawmakers are also exploring what the FAA’s role will be in the future of spaceflight. But the clock is ticking for bureaucrats as these billionaires huddle together to help each other.
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The Amazon founder’s flight, scheduled for July 20, sparked a tease from rival space billionaire Richard Branson via Twitter.
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“Congratulations to @JeffBezos and his brother Mark for announcing space flight plans. Jeff started building @blueorigin in 2000, we started building @virgingalactic in 2004 and now both are opening access to space – how special! View this space…”
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A report in Parobolic air suggested that Branson wants to skip Bezos.
Sir Richard Branson helps show off Virgin Galactic’s new Under Armor spacewear. (Credit: Virgin Galactic)
Questions from FOX Business to Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic were not answered.
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Tesla founder Elon Musk’s SpaceX has already guided several successful missions after becoming the first private company to fly NASA astronauts into space last year.
Next stop, the moon. NASA awarded the company a $2.9 billion contract to land Americans on the moon for the first time since 1972.
Musk and Bezos have exchanged punches about their respective space weapons, with Musk making fun of Bezos in April after challenging NASA to choose SpaceX for the moon landing contract.
Musk said in a Twitter post that Bezos couldn’t get it into orbit.
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