Please don't miss the point on the amendments to this bill: by
by requiring that the crew be made as safe as the passengers, the bill prevents the testing of any spacecraft. Passengers can't fly in a craft that has no safety record. How could a crew test a space craft that has no safety record? Obviously, they couldn't.
See
http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/links.html?rank=& url=http://catallarchy.net/blog/archives/2004/10/0 7/uh-oh/
and
http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/004386.ht ml#004386