space tourism regulation

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the legal and regulatory frameworks governing the commercial transportation of private citizens to space for recreational, scientific, or experiential purposes, including safety certification requirements, liability frameworks, informed consent protocols, and the apportionment of regulatory authority between national aviation authorities and international space law bodies; the United States Federal Aviation Administration licenses commercial human spaceflight under a framework that requires operators to inform passengers of the risks but does not yet prescribe specific safety standards, relying instead on informed consent; as suborbital tourism flights by Blue Origin's New Shepard and orbital tourism missions by SpaceX proliferate, pressure is growing on regulators to develop more robust safety standards while preserving commercial innovation; jurisdictional questions arise when passengers are citizens of one country, the operator is licensed in another, and the flight passes through international space