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Government Astronauts & More: FAA Issues Regulations Under U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015

Greenberg Traurig – Prior to passage of the CSLCA in 2015, both the FAA and NASA recognized that the existing definitions of “crew” and “space flight participants” were inappropriate for NASA astronauts hitching rides on Commercial Crew Program-provided spacecraft.

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