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Re:A moon colony may be a reality sooner than we think by Animats on Friday May 25, 2018 @01:31AM (#17150866)
The Secretary of Commerce, who normally isn't involved with this, is creating a coordinating committee. Big deal.

Regulation is not holding back building a moon colony. It's insanely expensive and nobody wants to spend the money. Even Musk doesn't want to build a moon colony, and he could.

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Re:A moon colony may be a reality sooner than we think by azernik on Friday May 25, 2018 @01:49AM (#17150930)
Secretary of Commerce is actually intimately involved with space - most regulation of US space activity goes through the FCC, and Ross has been talking up reforms to that administrative process. (In part, it seems, as a power grab WRT the DoT and maybe DoD, which currently do a lot of the regulatory work he's talked about undertaking.)
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