This week, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order called “Enabling Competition In The Commercial Space Industry” with the purpose of enabling commercial space companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin by reducing or removing environmental and other regulations, cutting red tape and allowing for more launches. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

The executive order called on the Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite the Department of Transportation’s environmental reviews for, and other obstacles to the granting of, launch and reentry licenses and permits.”

“People think the Department of Transportation (DOT) is just planes, trains, and automobiles – but we

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