Re:SpaceX Launch Livestream: CRS-8 Dragon Hosted Webcast
by lutorm on Friday April 08, 2016 @06:52PM
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ITAR allows greencard holders, so not everyone's an American citizen.
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Re:SpaceX Launch Livestream: CRS-8 Dragon Hosted Webcast
by SpaceX_Tech on Friday April 08, 2016 @11:59PM
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Not only greencard holders but ITAR even has exemptions for non-US persons, that is those who aren't US citizens or Permanent Residents.
I don't work directly with anyone like this but I know SpaceX has a few, not sure of the exact number, employees who are neither citizens nor permanent residents.
From what I've heard the process of getting a non-US person ITAR cleared is extremely costly, both in time and money and is thus used very sparingly.