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Pete Buttigieg: “The Department of Transportation actually already had…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Published | Video Starts at 53:04

What's happening. The mishmash we have now where you've got NASA obviously leading government driven space missions, you got The Department of Transportation actually already had responsibility over some things, and we did commercial space licensing. We wound up having to radically accelerate how that worked because that actually comes under the faa largely because you have to go through the national airspace to get to space. (53:04–53:17)

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Asserts that the Department of Transportation is involved in commercial space licensing.

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