Talk:Office of Commercial Space Transportation

"States" bearing responsibility
I'm reverting the edits to the opening on responsibility, because the original wording was more accurate. The current version would be confusing to readers in the United States, because the word "state" is commonly used to refer to places like California or Alabama -- however in the 1967 Treaty, it is used to refer to countries. The United States is one of 98 countries that are "State Parties to the Treaty."

Excerpt from 1967 Treaty:

Article VI

States Parties to the Treaty shall bear international responsibility for national activities in outer space, [...], whether such activities are carried on by governmental agencies or by non-governmental entities, [...]. (i.e. citizens and corporations)

Article VII

Each State Party to the Treaty that launches or procures the launching of an object into outer space, [...], and each State Party from whose territory or facility an object is launched, is internationally liable for damage to another State Party to the Treaty [...].

A decent summary of this is "The nationality of the launch operator and the location of the launch determines which country is responsible for any damage that occurs." Michael (talk) 09:02, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Office of Commercial Space Transportation. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20060407092050/http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&tpl=%2Findex.tpl to http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&tpl=%2Findex.tpl

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 06:35, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

External links modified (January 2018)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Office of Commercial Space Transportation. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added tag to http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?sid=afbbec46c82557ddc01d055724f37cee&c=ecfr&tpl=%2Fecfrbrowse%2FTitle14%2F14cfrv4_02.tpl
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20050427010738/http://www.faa.gov/ to http://faa.gov/

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 20:19, 24 January 2018 (UTC)