This has been an area that has been lacking for NHTSA.
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Bill Nelson emphasizes NHTSA's shortcomings in vehicle safety defect detection.
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It is a real problem, and we are going to have some catastrophic consequences if we cannot get nations that are launching things into space to provide enough fuel to have a controlled reentry.
It will fly supersonic but its design is such a radical design, that instead of pushing the bow wave going through the atmosphere, as you go from subsonic to supersonic, which causes that audible sound that goes 'boom, boom,' it will…
What we are going to do is a multi-year test, taking it to different locations all over the United States, and see if the muffled roar is acceptable to the people on the ground.
We go with commercial partners because the third mission, we are going into lunar orbit.





