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White House proposes bill to expand FAA oversight of people on commercial spaceflight

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Andrea Leinfelder@andrealeinfelder
Houston Chronicle
New legislation proposed by the White House would give human spaceflight authority largely to the FAA, while the Department of Commerce would oversee robotic spaceflight (except for in-space transportation, such as delivering fuel from an in-space depot to a space station, which will go to the FAA).
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