Does NASA inspect the spaceships?
NASA has no involvement with design of space tourism vehicles. The Soyuz spacecraft used for orbital space flight was designed and built in Russia. The spacecrafts being developed for suborbital space tourism, such as the LYNX and the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo, have all been developed as commercial ventures. The US government department that does have oversight for regulation of this industry is the FAAs Office of Commercial Space Transportation. [back to top] Q17.
