credit: Spacefleet / caption: This personal spaceflght vehicle was designed by an international team of engineers
At the 3rd International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety conference held in Rome earlier this month a panel session on private spaceflight was held featuring key people who will be directly involved in the development of the personal spaceflight industry in the years to come
Those key people include experts from the US Federal Aviation Administration's office of commercial space transportation, the European Aviation Safety Agency, the French space agency CNES, the German aerospace agency DLR, EADS Astrium and air and space lawyers
The session ran for 1h 24min and it was recorded in its entirety, without any editing, including some interventions by me, but if you stick it out there is a lot of very informed comment and I think a lot can be learned
To watch the session video click through to the extended portion of this blog post
all comments made by individuals in the video are their personal views and not the views of their respective employers
At the end of this video you will hear an exchange between panel session chairman Jospeh Pelton, an academic at The George Washington University (he has been involved in the Congressional report on possible post-2012 suborbital rule changes), and I. The IAASS board meeting he refers to decided that as long as it was made clear that the session's participants' views expressed were their own the Association had no issues with the video being posted online
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