a day later his painful fragmentary announcement to run for president on Twitter Spaces this week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Signed a Bill Limiting Liability Private space companies face passengers and crew in the event of catastrophic failure.
Some people and agents are making connections between this bill, which will benefit private space companies, like SpaceX, to him. embarrassing fan-boy via SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. But we should all probably relax and see what this law really does.
DeSantis signed CS/SB 1318 – Space Flight Organization Liability along with 27 other bills. Bill—passed both houses unanimously—does not protect a private space company from any form of liability. It only applies to crew and passengers who are climbing on board. It requires anyone aboard a private space flight to sign a waiver acknowledging the risks they face and their inability to sue if disaster strikes. It has nothing to do with defending a company that destroys a house with the debris of an exploding rocket.
Honestly, if you are brocket driving You should be well aware of the risks before entering the stage of giving up singing. After all, you are traveling by explosive vehicle. That’s the whole “bold” part of being bold. There’s about a 4% chance of dying during space flight or training for astronauts and cosmonauts, according to the report. Space Rating. SpaceX’s rockets have a similar failure rate at four percent, according to BBC. But the kind of person who can afford it make such space flights are also potentially quite litigators, so such laws are necessary if private space travel is to continue to move forward (although p.space flight rivate should move forward is a completely different argument.)
Technically, governors don’t really make decisions about when or what kind of legislation gets to their desks. Invoicing takes a long process to become law in any steat and Florida is no exception. In Florida, a bill becomes law when the governor signs it, or on the 60th day after the legislature adjourns. Implying that DeSantis is in some kind of reciprocity with Musk after the Spaces event really doesn’t make any sense. What is the motivation of the Florida Senate? three weeks before it passed the law? What about California, when it issued a similar law 2017 or TX in 2011? Both have done business with Musk, but also with Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin, which launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Station.
DeSantis is definitely not my cup of tea, and it’s safe to say Musk isn’t either, but there’s no need to look for lame controversies when both men are do a lot of very realistic damage ARRIVE everyday people.
