DeSantis Signs Bill Shielding Musk's SpaceX From 'Spaceflight Entity Liability'

[Eugene]

DeSantis Signs Bill Shielding Musk’s SpaceX From ‘Spaceflight Entity Liability’ (Rolling Stone)

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) signed a bill regarding spaceflight on Thursday just one day after he announced his presidential run in a glitch-filled interview with Elon Musk on Twitter Spaces.

DeSantis signed into law CS/SB 1318 – Spaceflight Entity Liability along with 27 other bills. The law exempts “spaceflight entity from liability for injury to or death of a crew resulting from spaceflight activities under certain circumstances.” The measure also requires “a spaceflight entity to have a crew sign a specified warning statement.”

https://news.yahoo.com/desantis-signs-bill-shielding-musk-050242586.html

[Lovie777]

1. Protecting the rich..........................

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Do they even know the meaning of the word "accountability "?

[no_hypocrisy]

3. As a corollary, was NASA immune from liability b/c of the Challenger Disaster?

IOW, were the families of the astronauts on The Challenger unable to sue? (I hate to ask, but was the disaster considered Workers Compensation?)

[Johonny]

6. No

The federal government and Morton Thiokol Inc. agreed to pay $7.7 million in cash and annuities to the families of four of the seven Challenger astronauts as part of a settlement aimed at avoiding lawsuits in the nation's worst space disaster.

I'm not sure this Florida law would protect them from being sued elsewhere or even in Florida. It's very hard to waive liability. Particularly at the state level for a national company and the launch would be on Federal grounds.

[TeamProg]

4. IOW: "Our incompetence may kill you." nt

[rickford66]

5. How far does Florida's jurisdiction extend ?

[PXR-5]

7. Probably as high as

Starship flew before it exploded 😆