Dirac Angestun Gesept

Wired News covers the post-9/11 regulation problems affecting hobby rocketry. Basically, chalk up another casualty of the War on Things People Might Possibly Do Bad Stuff With Somehow.

I think the timing of the article is probably due to the success of SpaceShipOne; I’d heard grumblings about this before, but the juxtaposition of “private industry gets to space” and “government stomps on folks trying to do rocketry” is new.

I suspect Homer Hickam is not too happy about the situation; good thing these regs weren’t around in the late 1950s. Note another of his books, written after 9/11: We Are Not Afraid.

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