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December 06, 2004
Alert - HR5382
From Don Doughty through the NSS Political Action Network:
Please call or Fax both Senators from your state and ask them to support HR5382, The Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act. HR5382 is the latest hard-fought compromise version of HR 3752, which in turn started as HR3245 (text and other info for all these bills can be found using their numbers at http://thomas.loc.gov/). Your Senators can be reached though the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.
The new commercial space passenger industry shows great promise if allow to take prudent risks and develop low cost technology as happened during the early days of aviation. The FAA currently regulates the risk of uninvolved bystanders and this bill will not change these regulations.
More details at: Space Access Society_ (SAS) Update #107, on what's
needed to get HR5382 through the Senate. The SAS has been following space transportation budget & legislative for issues well over a decade.
Hints for working "The Hill": one page Faxes have the most impact,
followed by phone calls. Letters and e-mail have the least effect.
Letters & packages take several weeks to be delivered because of security procedures, and e-mail carries little weight because of the large volume.
Posted by apsmith at December 6, 2004 11:36 AM
