Inspiration 4: Any Need for Regulating Private Orbital Spaceflight?

Congratulations to SpaceX for a flawless launch of Inspiration4! 

For those of you interested in the legalities, we dug up the FAA launch license for the mission

By the way, remember when the X-Prize was won in 2004? We had safety regulations (such as they are) in place by 2006 – 15 years before the first all-civilian flight! Now we have the first civilian orbital flight and no talk of regulations. Any thoughts on this? Does OST Art. VI require additional regulation?

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