A nearly 20-year ban on human spaceflight regulations is set to expire

arstechnica.com

26 pointsrntn3 comments

“Lawmakers have extended the moratorium twice, most recently in 2015.”

Kinda makes this a nothing burger, absent some reason to expect that what happened recently won't happen again.

How good is Congress at passing low-impact (ones that aren't especially political) laws currently? That's the main holdup I can think of.

Now I'm wondering if there's some measure of throughput for things like this. e.g. renaming post offices

I imagine they'll keep pushing this back until

a) a catastrophic accident impacts many people or

b) civilians are going to space in more significant numbers.