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A nearly 20-year ban on human spaceflight regulations is set to expire
(arstechnica.com)
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It would have been nice of they reported on what the moratorium actually entails. What safety regulations are going to come back?
It's explained in the article
They basically made it law so the only regulation was "informed consent", with informed consent you can launch private missions.
Government and private bodies were supposed to come together to come up with sensible rules. No one has done that.
So once the law passes nothing will really change, except government bodies will be required to figure out a framework to qualify private launches